Raelene Faught

Raelene Faught is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people heal from hurts and make healthier choices in relationships and daily life. Her style is straightforward and respectful, and she centers each session on what the client knows about their own needs.

People turn to her for issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, and struggles with self-esteem. She also works with challenges like addiction, eating concerns, anger, bipolar mood issues, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include attachment and family of origin problems, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and compassion fatigue.

Her approach blends Trauma-Focused Therapy with attachment-based and client-centered ideas. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing to help clients notice patterns, set practical goals, and try small changes between sessions. Sessions tend to emphasize learning, insight, and real-world strategies rather than jargon.

In a typical meeting she listens first, helps organize what matters most, and then supports step-by-step changes clients can test in their lives. She aims to make therapy feel collaborative rather than prescriptive. This practical tone is meant to help people take manageable steps toward relief.

People considering therapy are invited to match through the Start Therapy process and schedule according to availability. Raelene hopes the choice to begin is an easy one and offers a welcoming professional presence for those ready to begin.

Approaches that inform online work

Trauma-Focused Therapy aims to help people process past hurts and reduce distress linked to traumatic events. It often includes pacing, grounding, and learning ways to tolerate upsetting memories while moving toward safer choices.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people recognize repeating relationship habits and build steadier ways of relating to others and to themselves.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's experience and goals. The therapist listens closely, reflects understanding, and partners with the client to decide what to try next.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try approaches or techniques and adjust them based on what clicks and what actually helps in daily life.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, avoid travel time, and keep regular momentum between appointments. Because the original biography does not list specific session formats, confirm which formats are offered before booking. The focus online is on clear goals, practical tools, and checking whether strategies carry over into everyday routines.