Racheal Pluim-Bergmann, LCSW

Racheal Pluim-Bergmann is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Wisconsin. She has 12 years of experience helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, substance use, grief, and low self-esteem. Her work focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside client-centered methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that get in the way of daily life. Racheal also draws from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices when clients need skills for emotion regulation and staying present. She uses EMDR when trauma memories are a central part of someone’s difficulty.

Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. She helps people set small, achievable targets like improving sleep, reducing urges, or repairing communication patterns. Racheal offers coaching-style support for career concerns and guidance for those working through life changes or compassion fatigue.

People can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through hurts such as abandonment, shame, or body image struggles. She also addresses complicated patterns like codependency, hoarding, and co-occurring substance use and mental health issues.

Racheal provides care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and work begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling an appointment.

How Racheal’s Approaches Work Online

Racheal uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on sleep, mood, worry, or substance use by setting clear, short-term goals.

She also relies on client-centered therapy, which prioritizes listening and supporting each person’s own goals. This approach helps when someone needs validation, clearer decision-making, or space to understand difficult emotions. When intense emotions or self-harm urges are present, she may draw on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping and emotion regulation skills.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adapt techniques as work progresses. Clients and therapist decide together which methods to try and when to change course.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and differing needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into everyday life.