Rachel Thornburg, LPC

Rachel Thornburg is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She also supports those dealing with trauma, relationship struggles, parenting strain, grief, and issues around identity and self-esteem. Rachel works from Idaho and offers practical, hands-on support for everyday problems.

Her sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people change harmful thoughts and build coping skills. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented so people leave with things they can try between meetings.

Rachel pays attention to how past hurt affects current choices. She helps clients untangle patterns around codependency, abandonment, and communication problems. She is also familiar with concerns such as bipolar disorder, ADHD, panic attacks, substance addiction, and first responder stress.

In therapy she blends emotional work with practical tools. People learn strategies for mood management, relapse prevention, and handling intense emotions like anger and shame. She also supports folks navigating divorce, gender dysphoria, body image, and kink-aware concerns in a nonjudgmental way.

Her background includes five years of clinical experience as an LPC. Rachel aims to create a steady, respectful space where people can set concrete goals and practice new ways of coping. She encourages small steps and realistic change plans that fit everyday life.

How Rachel’s Approaches Work Online

Rachel commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered techniques to help people change unhelpful thought patterns and build practical skills. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and replacing them with healthier habits. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, validation, and building a trusting conversation so people feel heard and can set their own goals.

She also uses elements of Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship or attachment issues are central. EFT helps people name and work with strong emotions and patterns that affect close connections. Together these approaches give both skill-based tools and space to process feelings, and she will work with each person to decide what fits best for their situation.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is low, live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These formats provide flexibility for ongoing skill practice and support between sessions.