Rachel Blanchette, Therapist

Rachel Blanchette, LMFT, helps individuals, couples, and families across Michigan navigate life’s challenges with compassion, insight, and practical strategies for lasting change. As a Marriage & Family Therapist at LifeStance Health, she provides individual therapy, couples therapy, and family therapy for teens and adults. Rachel supports clients facing concerns such as anxiety, depression, and ADHD, creating a collaborative therapeutic environment where people feel heard, understood, and empowered to move forward. Rachel is particularly passionate about helping individuals who have recently been discharged from a psychiatric hospital. She understands that transitioning back to daily life after an inpatient stay can feel overwhelming and uncertain. Her work focuses on helping clients stabilize emotionally, rebuild confidence, and develop practical coping skills that support long-term mental health and wellness. Through compassionate guidance and structured support, Rachel helps clients regain a sense of control and reconnect with their goals and relationships. Her therapeutic style combines evidence-based care with a relational approach. Rachel frequently integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), couples and marital counseling, and family therapy to help clients identify patterns, strengthen communication, and build healthier coping strategies. She has experience working with teens and adults navigating anxiety, depression, and ADHD, and she also supports members of the LGBTQ+ community, individuals involved in adoption or foster care, and first responders. Rachel offers additional areas of expertise to meet the diverse mental health needs of the communities she serves. Rachel began practicing in 2019 after completing her education at Mercer University and Grand Valley State University. She values continued learning and clinical growth in order to provide thoughtful, effective care for every client she works with. Outside of her professional life, Rachel enjoys spending time with her husband and kids, connecting with friends, reading, and unwinding with the occasional dose of delightfully bad reality television.