About Rachel
Rachel Keefer is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois who focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, life changes, and ADHD. She brings a practical, caring approach and a focus on everyday strategies that help people manage symptoms and move toward goals. Rachel has three years of experience as an LCPC.
She supports people facing chronic illness and pain, caregiver strain, and aging or geriatric concerns. She also offers guidance around grief, hospice and end-of-life issues, and the emotional impact of medical challenges.
Background and approach
In sessions she talks through coping skills, goal setting, and ways to add small healthy habits into a busy life. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what works for each person. She aims to help people connect thoughts, body sensations, and daily routines so changes feel manageable.
Clients can expect practical education about health and wellness alongside emotional support. Rachel pays attention to how medical issues and psychiatric concerns interact, and helps people navigate those overlapping challenges without jargon. Her work also covers isolation and loneliness, communication difficulties, life purpose, panic and panic attacks, pregnancy and childbirth transitions, seasonal mood shifts, self-love, and somatization.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients for remote care. Rachel uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet people where they are. She supports people through short-term goals or longer work depending on what each person needs.
Approaches that fit symptoms and schedules
Rachel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage mood, focus, and the effects of chronic health issues. One common approach emphasizes building practical coping skills and behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and improve daily routines; this involves learning small, repeatable strategies to handle stress and improve focus. Another approach centers on linking thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations to relieve depression and somatic symptoms; it helps people notice patterns and try new responses.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels useful. That teamwork helps tailor pacing and tools to individual needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Rachel provides video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is a concern, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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