Rachelle Belott Filipiak, LPC

Rachelle Belott Filipiak is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses practical, relationship-focused therapy. She draws on several approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. Her style aims to make skills useful in daily life. She writes in a direct, encouraging way that helps people feel understood and able to try new ways of coping.

Rachelle earned a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Her work history includes a domestic violence shelter for women, a college counseling center, a medium-security correctional facility for men, and outpatient mental health services. These roles shaped how she meets people where they are and adjusts techniques to fit real situations.

In sessions she blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral strategies. That means she focuses on relationships and patterns, listens without judgment, and teaches skills to change thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused therapy when helpful.

Rachelle often helps people dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, addiction, body-image concerns, chronic illness or pain, and the challenges of ADHD. She also supports people facing adoption and foster-care issues, caregiver stress, and cancer-related concerns.

Her goal is to build skills clients can keep using after therapy ends. She encourages small, practical changes that reduce emotional distress and improve daily functioning. People who want a collaborative, down-to-earth approach may find her style approachable and useful.

How therapeutic approaches work in online care

Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions; online or in person it helps people notice patterns that repeat in their close relationships and try new ways of connecting. Client-centered therapy centers on listening and understanding without judgment, giving clients space to set goals and explore what matters most in their lives. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches step-by-step skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful behaviors.

Finding the best approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend which methods to try. This collaborative planning makes it easier to adjust methods as progress is made.

The original biography does not specify session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy day by reducing travel time and letting people join from a convenient location. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or sessions without video when bandwidth or comfort is a concern. Many people find that learning skills and practicing between sessions transfers well into everyday life, regardless of how sessions are scheduled.