Our team
Rachel Kusilek, MA, LPCC
Rachel (she/her) connects with clients from a place of acceptance using humor and warmth to make the therapeutic process collaborative and comfortable. Rachel takes a systemic perspective striving to understand how an individual’s difficulties and symptoms arise from their life experiences and relationships. She views the therapeutic process as a way to come alongside clients in an effort to improve their satisfaction with life and relationships.
Rachel specializes in helping individuals make transformational change through body based trauma therapy techniques. Rachel uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Trauma-focused Internal Family Systems, and Somatic Experiencing to help clients quickly dive into past experiences that continue to interfere with present functioning. This is often intense work for a short period and leads to meaningful and lasting change. Rachel does this type of trauma work with children, adolescents, and adults. She has a special interest in using these techniques to help those who have experienced perinatal trauma.
Rachel has 15+ years of experience working with adolescents struggling with depression, anxiety, and self-harming behaviors. When working with adolescents, Rachel spends time supporting parents and making them a part of the healing process.
Rachel has a passion and compassion for working with individuals that are working to build a family and transition to parenthood. Including those who have experienced infertility, miscarriage, infant loss, birth trauma, and perinatal/postpartum depression and anxiety.
Rachel specializes in child anxiety and has powerful tools to assist clients in rising above worry and fear. She believes that one of the most effective ways to help reduce child anxiety is by working with caregivers to respond to their children in ways that reduce rather than reinforce anxiety. She uses a program called SPACE to support caregivers both individually and in groups.
Amber (she/her) believes it is the experiences of our past that make up our present and influence our future. Through these experiences, we fashion our own individual stories and our bodies learn how to hold those stories. Amber strives to help clients freely and openly unpack those stories throughout the therapeutic process. Amber believes when our stories are unpacked in safe and trusted spaces, we can experience more freedom within ourselves. Through understanding and honoring how these stories are held and intertwined within our body, we can intentionally move toward healing, wellness, and alignment with our authentic self. Amber collaboratively walks alongside each individual to empower them to experience healing and growth in their present and seek hope for their future. She warmly encourages her clients to learn how to embrace the discomfort that life sometimes creates and to remember the importance of giving ourselves “grace.”
Amber has been in practice for over 11 years, with experience working with young children through adulthood. Amber utilizes a person-centered focus with curiosity, authenticity, and humor. She works from a trauma-informed lens, incorporating the connection between our body, mind, and spirit. She has obtained advanced training in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and has completed the PSI and 2020 Mom Professional Maternal Mental Health Certificate Training. Amber has completed additional mental health training through ASRM focusing on Assisted Reproductive Technology. Amber is specifically passionate about working with birthing persons, parents adjusting to parenthood, as well as individuals who have experienced infertility, miscarriage, infant loss, birth trauma, and/or perinatal or postpartum depression and anxiety. Amber has additional interest supporting birth doulas and gestational carriers.
She looks forward to the opportunity to walk alongside you in this therapeutic journey.