Rachael Livasy, lpc

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 Rachael has always had a strong connection to counseling as a profession. She received her Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling from McKendree University while working in a community mental health agency. While working on her graduate degree, she provided Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), that program helped shape her focus and practice as a provider. Rachael also worked closely with colleagues receiving and providing consultation and training in the field. 

She developed several workshops for clients, presentations for her community and trainings for clinicians. While in practice, she was one of the first to receive National Certification from the Linehan Board and subsequently was promoted to Clinical Director where she spent years supporting a DBT practice consisting of both clients and clinicians. In 2017 she began to integrate neurofeedback into her practice as she witnessed a need to help stabilize symptoms while providing effective therapeutic interventions. While integrating the two together, she realized that she could help speed up the therapeutic process with the addition of neurotherapy. Throughout Rachael’s time as a provider she has focused on understanding the impact of painful events, a person’s development, the brain’s role in self-regulation and how the nervous system responds to life experiences. Keeping all of this in mind, Rachael is able to apply specific interventions needed for each person she works with.

Rachael is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™.