Rachel Thornburg
Compassionate counselor focused on practical change
LPC Idaho
- Experience
- 5 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Rachel
Rachel Thornburg is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Idaho. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and the emotional fallout of relationship problems and grief.
Background and approach
Rachel aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who are juggling real life demands. Her sessions are warm and person-focused.
She listens first, then helps people map clear steps to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Techniques come from a mix of approaches such as cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness practice, and emotion-focused work adapted to each person's needs.
Rachel draws on five years of clinical experience to guide people through trauma, anger, and complicated grief. She also addresses concerns like ADHD, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, and shame.
For people dealing with addiction, codependency, or domestic violence histories, she offers steady, nonjudgmental support. She pays attention to relationship patterns and communication problems and uses methods that include the Gottman Method to help people understand how interactions affect emotional life.
Sessions also incorporate motivational interviewing when change feels difficult and mindfulness tools for managing overwhelm. Rachel works with a wide range of concerns including body image, gender dysphoria, BDSM and kink issues, first responder stress, and parenting strain.
Her approach is collaborative: she helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress over time.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Rachel uses a mix of approaches to help people make changes that matter. The Gottman Method is used to explore how everyday interactions and communication patterns affect emotions and relationship functioning. It helps identify small habits to change and clearer ways to talk about hard topics.Client-Centered Therapy is another part of her practice. This means sessions begin with listening carefully and adjusting the pace and focus to what each person needs in the moment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers concrete tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, try methods that suit those goals, and adapt techniques as progress is tracked. Clients and the therapist choose approaches that fit personal preferences and practical needs rather than assuming one fixed method.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates and reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family, and other commitments.
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Experience
5+ years
Licensed in
Idaho
Languages
English