Dr. Rachel Kinison, LCPC, LMHC

Dr. Rachel Kinison welcomes adults navigating hard transitions and midlife concerns. She writes plainly and listens for practical steps people can use right away. With two decades of counseling experience, she focuses on helping clients reduce stress, manage anxiety, and cope with grief and life changes.

Rachel earned a doctorate in Pastoral Community Counseling and a master’s degree in Counseling. She holds LCPC and LMHC credentials and practices from Illinois. Her background includes work in community counseling, hospital behavioral health, and adult probation programs, so she is familiar with a range of life situations and systems.

In sessions she combines straightforward Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with elements from Emotionally-Focused and Narrative approaches. She says not every person fits one model, so she mixes techniques to match each person’s needs. Practical tools like relaxation skills and short behavior-focused exercises are often part of the work.

Rachel also speaks openly about living with disabilities including mild cerebral palsy and dystonia, and managing chronic migraines. That lived experience informs her approach to chronic pain, long-term conditions, and aging-related concerns. She likes to help people find small changes that create ripple effects in mood and daily functioning.

Her style is down-to-earth and goal oriented. She encourages clients to see themselves as problem solvers and offers guidance as a steady compass. People seeking help with addiction, relationships, parenting stress, trauma, or midlife reevaluation may find her practical focus useful.

How Rachel’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Dr. Kinison commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing small behaviors to shift mood and stress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people notice and change interaction habits that keep pain or distance alive.

She also draws on Narrative Therapy ideas when it helps clients reframe life stories and find new meanings after loss or trauma. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as therapy proceeds.

Because the biography does not list specific online session formats, confirm current session options before booking. Many clients find online sessions easier to fit into a workday, handle caregiving responsibilities, or maintain continuity when travel or health needs arise. Online work can let a therapist guide short skill practice, teach relaxation exercises, and review thought-behavior plans between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, EFT, and narrative techniques to remote settings, and Rachel will help decide which tools suit individual needs.