About Raylene
Raylene Franklin helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, parenting strain, and major life changes. She is Raylene Franklin, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Montana with 20 years of experience. She talks plainly and aims to make therapy feel like practical help rather than more worry.
Her focus includes mood disorders, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and challenges linked to caregiving and aging. Raylene’s style is down-to-earth and client-centered.
Background and approach
She meets people where they are and treats sessions like a coaching conversation when that fits. She uses clear goals and short-term tools so people leave with something to try between meetings. Her background includes long experience with addiction, hospice and end-of-life care, and mental health concerns like depression and anxiety.
That work shaped a focus on helping people regain confidence and manage daily stress. She also supports those dealing with social anxiety, seasonal affective disorder, and codependency. In sessions she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused approaches alongside Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques.
That mix lets her address thoughts and behavior, emotional patterns, and practical steps toward change. She adapts methods to each person’s needs and pace. Raylene offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible care.
She works with people across Montana and accepts international clients for remote sessions. To begin, follow the site’s Start Therapy flow and complete the short matching questionnaire.
How Raylene’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities. It helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to set their own goals with guidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and actions and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms and to change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to emotions and how they shape relationships and self-understanding, which can help with grief, trauma, and strong emotional reactions.Picking the right approach is part of the work. Raylene will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online sessions make regular work on goals easier. Video calls allow conversational depth similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, ongoing encouragement, and checking progress between calls. These options help fit therapy into busy days and different life rhythms.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English