Licensed to practice in Ohio and accepts 11 insurances. Specializes in Couples Counseling, Self Esteem, Trauma and PTSD and 10 more.
Rachael Liggan
New to Grow
About me
Welcome! I am Rachael a licensed professional clinical counselor, based out of Ohio. My practice is your safe haven to explore, process, learn and create paths to your well-being and restore connectedness to you and your loved ones. I offer a breadth of knowledge, clinical skills, training, and expertise in your therapeutic journey as a clinician. I hold two master's degree in counseling, both with the focus on healing individuals, couples, and the family. Additionally, I am completing my doctrine in Community Counseling and Care with a specialty in traumatology, thereby able to also provide evidenced based trauma-informed care to you and your love ones suffering from trauma. This is your mental sanctity to be heard, supported, and empowered with respect, inviolable dignity, holistic value, and free from judgment.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Your first session will be approximately an hour long. The goal of this session will be for me to gain an accurate understanding of your suffering for clinical diagnosis and treatment needs. It will consist of learning more about you, your background and what brought you to therapy today. I will be asking you questions too, pertaining to your present needs and concerns as well as exploring your strengths, supportive care, and how you have coped past to present. This helps me map out the clinical picture of what you may need in your therapeutic journey and how I may better assist you in counseling.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I am your trusted entity. I am that active listener with a non judgemental stance to sit with you in your present condition. I have the ability and compassion to come alongside you and your loved ones with openness, dignity, and respect. I bring joy as well as humblesome. I provide a positive energy and knowledgeable insight into suffering from a wide range of brokenness. I am multicultured and multifaceted. I am not afraid to ask the tough questions and will meet you at your pace for change.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
Come as you are, whether individually or with your loved ones for couple and family counseling. Therapy with me is focused on your wellness, rather than symptom elimination. In session, we will explore how to make meaningful life choices even when experiencing difficult thoughts and feelings. Your real-time growth is what happens when you step out of the session. My practice is most beneficial for people who are open to change and are willing to do exercises or homework challenges outside of the session. Session time is limited to the hour and will begin wrapping up the session at the 50min mark of the hour, unless a crisis arises or otherwise collaborated between you and I. My practice requires a 24hr cancelation notice to avoid late cancelation fees.
Specialties
Top specialties
Couples Counseling
Self Esteem
Trauma and PTSD
Other specialties
Anger Management
Anxiety
Career Counseling
Coping Skills
Depression
Family Therapy
Grief
Life Transitions
Mood Disorders
Women's Issues
Identifies as
Black / African American
White
Woman
Serves ages
Adults (18 to 64)
Licensed in
Ohio
Accepts
Amerihealth Administrators
Arlo
Cash - $100 per session
Centivo
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
EAP:Cigna
EAP:Evernorth
Evernorth
GTEB
Tufts Health/Cigna
Location
Virtual
My treatment methods
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I help individuals navigate through life hardships by aligning their mental health with their deepest beliefs. By utilizing Acceptance Commitment Therapy, you and I will explore your core values and what is meaningful to you. This will help us restore your quality of life by understanding a deeper sense of who you are and what makes your journey unique. With this approach, we will explore what it will take to live the life you deserve, free of the mental and emotional agony that has deprived you of living your life with peace and fulfillment. Together, we won't just talk about change, we will co-create practical steps to anchor you towards restoration.
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
In the life journey, at times we may bare roadblocks and experience areas that seem unbearable and hastening your quality of life. Therefore, I will integrate cognitive processing therapy. Cognitive Processing Therapy is designed to dive into the internal layers of roadblocks. With the application of this approach and the homework assigned with this type of therapeutic service, you will gain a better understanding of how these layers may be creating the roadblocks and preventing you from experiencing the right to breathe, think, or have mobility in life.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Anxiety, depression, and trauma can lead into unwanted thoughts that lead to filling more intense emotional pain, creating downward spiraling and crashing out with anger, fear, sleeplessness, and impairment. Thus, I apply cognitive behavioral approaches to challenge those negative thoughts. This will help facilitate healthier ways to think and respond behavior to life experiences, triggers, and stressors.
Couples Counseling
Specifically for couples and the marital unit, I incorporate modalities such as SYMBIS or Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, Prepare-Enrich, Emotion-focused family, Solution-Focused, and Cognitive Behavioral strategies to enhance understanding, promote how to better listen, love, connect and communicate with you and your loved one. This service is designed to restore real-time togetherness and to teach you and your loved one how to walk in the strengths of your partnership.
Faith based therapy
Whether you are looking to strengthen your faith, or heal from past hurts, my practice integrates evidenced based therapeutic tools for your spiritual needs. This service is dedicated to those who seek spiritual nourishment or faith-based healing. I provide a compassionate, grace-filled space to help you grow.