Rachelle Belott Filipiak, LPC
Somatic-informed counselor focused on practical change
About Rachelle
Rachelle Belott Filipiak is a licensed professional counselor who blends body-centered work with conversational therapy. She uses somatic awareness alongside talk-based methods to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and then learn practical ways to respond.
Rachelle draws on five years of clinical practice and a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Stout to guide her work. She has seen clients in many settings, including a domestic violence shelter for women, a college counseling center, a medium-security correctional facility for men, and outpatient clinics.
Background and approach
Those experiences shaped a flexible style that fits different life situations and challenges. Rachelle offers a calm, steady presence and focuses on what will make daily life easier. Therapy sessions often combine noticing bodily signals, practical skills, and exploring relationship patterns.
She uses Client-Centered approaches to follow the person’s pace and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy are woven in when they help meet a client’s goals. Rachelle helps with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting strains, and ADHD.
She also works with issues like body image, attachment wounds, blended family stress, chronic illness, and caregiver strain. The focus is on small, doable changes that reduce distress. Her aim is to teach skills people can use on their own.
She supports people while they learn to respond differently to triggers and hard feelings. Sessions are offered from Wisconsin and conducted in English.
Approaches that connect body and thought in online care
Somatic work helps people notice where stress shows up in the body and learn simple ways to ease tension. It can be useful for trauma, chronic stress, and situations where feelings feel stuck in the body.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand and change how they relate to others and feel supported in relationships.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the person’s pace and priorities. The therapist listens closely and supports each person in finding their own solutions and strengths.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachelle will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. That collaboration lets the plan change as needs shift over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video calls let people read body language and practice somatic skills together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for short updates, skill reminders, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to get consistent support around work, family, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English