Rachael Lustfeldt

Rachael Lustfeldt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Georgia with 11 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. She also addresses compassion fatigue, relationship and family concerns, and self-esteem issues.

Rachael works in a straightforward way. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and builds on existing strengths. Sessions focus on practical steps and short-term strategies when helpful. Conversations are meant to identify what matters and what might be getting in the way.

Her practice uses tools from acceptance and commitment approaches and cognitive behavioral ideas. She blends narrative and solution-focused methods to help people reframe patterns and try concrete experiments outside sessions. That means talking through problems, testing small changes, and noticing what shifts.

Rachael has additional experience supporting people with aging and geriatric matters, cancer and hospice concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and issues tied to isolation or first responder work. She also addresses communication problems, control issues, domestic violence, and forgiveness work.

Sessions are conducted in English and she practices in Georgia. Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session to get started. The subscription for sessions varies by location and can be canceled at any time.

Therapeutic approaches and working online

Rachael uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while identifying values to guide action. ACT is often useful when someone feels stuck or uncertain about what matters next.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, and stress management that can be practiced between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachael will discuss which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences, and she adapts the plan collaboratively as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. They also make it possible to try techniques in the same environment where challenges occur, which can help translate changes into daily life.