Rian Rahm, LPC

Rian Rahm is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with ten years of clinical experience. She uses clear, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. Her work includes women's health concerns like pregnancy and postpartum, and she also supports people facing addiction, ADHD, grief, and workplace or family strain.

Rian favors a cognitive behavioral approach, using straightforward skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She pairs that with a client-centered stance, listening first and shaping treatment around each person’s goals. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are also part of her toolbox for building emotion regulation and coping strategies.

Sessions focus on concrete steps. People can expect to set realistic goals, try small experiments between meetings, and practice new ways of handling difficult emotions. Rian emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as the engine for progress and keeps work collaborative and paced to the client.

She often helps with family-related challenges such as blended family issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, and family of origin concerns. Rian also addresses fertility stress, life purpose questions, and adjustments after childbirth.

Rian offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their day. She works in English and practices throughout Wisconsin as an LPC. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.

How Rian’s Approaches Work Online

Rian uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT offers practical exercises and short experiments that translate well to online sessions for problems like anxiety, depression, and sleep issues. Client-centered therapy means she listens carefully and shapes each plan around the person's goals and experiences. This helps people feel heard and involved in what comes next.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation or intense stress is getting in the way. DBT techniques teach clear tools for managing strong feelings, improving relationships, and coping when life gets overwhelming. Together these approaches give a mix of skills, understanding, and step-by-step practice that can be adjusted as needs change.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rian will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those aims. She checks in regularly and adapts the plan based on what is working and what is not.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video is useful for longer sessions and skill teaching, phone can be a simpler check-in with less bandwidth, and chat or messaging work well for short updates or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care while balancing work, parenting, or other responsibilities.