Rachael Cloud , LMHC

Rachael Cloud is an Indiana licensed LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 12 years of clinical experience working with people across a wide range of concerns. She has supported individuals managing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, and trauma from sources such as death, divorce, physical injury, and emotional abuse. Her practice also addresses relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, eating concerns, parenting questions, self-esteem struggles, and ADHD, along with related issues like communication difficulties, veteran and armed forces concerns, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and young adult transitions.

Her therapeutic manner is warm and interactive, grounded in respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on building a collaborative space where clients can share, reflect, and explore their goals. Rachael blends multiple therapeutic orientations to meet each person’s needs, drawing on cognitive-behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior methods, acceptance and commitment techniques, and elements from psychodynamic and Adlerian perspectives. This flexibility allows her to tailor conversations and treatment plans to the individual rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model.

Rachael acknowledges that seeking help takes courage and offers steady support and empowerment for those ready to take steps toward greater well-being. She aims to partner with clients to identify practical skills and meaningful changes that fit their unique life circumstances.

Evidence-Informed Approaches and Online Care

Rachael Cloud integrates well-established therapeutic methods to address a variety of concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps clients build psychological flexibility by clarifying values and practicing acceptance alongside committed action, which can be useful for stress, avoidance, and persistent worry. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness, making it helpful for intense emotions, relationship challenges, and impulse-related difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Rachael works collaboratively with each person to explore what methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life, and she adapts techniques as the work progresses so therapy remains practical and relevant.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people balancing work, family, or mobility constraints. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue, phone sessions provide an accessible audio option, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing communication between sessions. These formats make it easier for clients to engage consistently while accessing therapists and licensed professionals from their own communities.