About Racheal
Racheal Pluim-Bergmann is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people sort through heavy emotions and life changes. She has 12 years of experience and practices in Wisconsin as an LCSW. Her style is direct, compassionate, and practical for people looking for clear steps forward.
Racheal focuses on concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, and grief. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and career stress.
Background and approach
She pays attention to overlapping problems such as codependency, shame, body image, and hoarding, and addresses how several issues can interact. Clients can expect a mix of listening and active skill-building. Racheal uses approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR, and mindfulness practices.
She adapts methods to practical goals rather than following a fixed formula. In sessions she helps people identify patterns, try new ways of coping, and set manageable goals. She supports work on communication problems, commitment issues, boundaries, and forgiveness.
Her aim is to help people gain more control over daily functioning and feel steadier in relationships. Racheal also works with people facing compassion fatigue and career-related strain. She integrates coaching-style focus when helpful, while keeping therapy grounded in the client’s immediate needs.
Sessions are offered in English and run through online formats and phone or chat options.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy starts with the person’s own goals and priorities. The therapist listens closely and helps guide choices that match what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on linking thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then trying out small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. It is helpful when strong emotions make daily life or relationships hard.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and try different methods to see what works best. Plans are adjusted over time so the work stays practical and focused on real-life improvements.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you see facial cues and do deeper work. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English