About Rachel
Rachel Thornburg is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Idaho who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship struggles, trauma, and ADHD. She approaches sessions with a calm, straightforward style that aims to make the next steps feel manageable. Conversations are practical and focused on what the client needs right now.
Rachel spends sessions listening closely and helping clients name what feels most urgent. She uses clear tools to manage panic, lift low mood, and reduce overwhelming anxiety.
Background and approach
When addiction or compulsive behaviors are present, sessions include planning and motivation work to support safer choices. Her work draws on client-centered therapy, which puts the person’s experience first, and cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. She also uses emotionally-focused and mindfulness-based techniques to help people notice feelings and respond differently.
These approaches are chosen to match the problem at hand. Rachel’s background includes five years of clinical experience helping people repair communication, cope with grief, and navigate big life changes. She has supported those dealing with anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her style is steady and practical, with an emphasis on small, usable changes. Sessions are offered in English and provided online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Rachel explains options clearly and works with each person to pick the best format for their needs and daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. It involves reflective listening and helping people find their own solutions, which is useful for coping with stress, grief, and self-esteem issues.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions use simple exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and build new routines, which can ease anxiety, panic, and mood difficulties.
Emotionally-focused work helps people identify and name strong emotions and learn new ways to respond. This approach supports relationship repair and managing intense feelings after trauma or loss.
Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will ask about goals, daily challenges, and what has helped before, then try tools that fit the person’s needs and preferences. Together they check what’s working and adjust the plan over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video is helpful when visual cues matter and for deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text work well for short check-ins, step-by-step planning, or moments when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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