Congratulations! Just by thinking about making a change in your life, your journey to living a fully empowered and authentic life has already begun. You are an expert of yourself and your family. Allow me to step in as an expert in self-development, creating emotional well-being, and achieving optimal mental health. Blending conventional and complimentary approaches, I draw on a variety of styles and techniques to facilitate bridging the gap between where you are and where you desire to be.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the states of Michigan and Texas and have over 19 years of experience. I earned my Bachelor of Science degree from North Carolina State University in 1980 and my Master of Arts degree from Oakland University in 2002. Additionally, I am a certified yoga teacher registered with Yoga Alliance which allows me to draw from the ancient practice and wisdom, which dates back over 4000 years, to help clients move into a balanced emotional, mental, and physical state of equanimity and self-awareness.
I view therapy as a process by which I facilitate my clients in exploration, clarification, and identification of their needs and help them to make changes in behaviors and cognitions. Therapy is a safe place to explore reactions, thoughts, and feelings about people in your life as well as yourself. It allows you the opportunity to practice new ways of interacting and when ready, to try these in other relationships. With an enhanced sense of self-understanding and acceptance, you are able to replace limiting beliefs you have learned and inherited with a new self-empowering perspective and create a breakthrough from surviving to thriving.
I utilize the multi-modal and holistic approach which integrates person-centered, cognitive behavioral, existential, psychodynamic, Gestalt, IFS (Internal Family Systems), Ketamine Assisted Therapy, mindfulness and solution-focused models to meet your specific and unique needs. Relying on research, I integrate an array of therapeutic interventions that will yield optimum results. I work with a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues including mood disorders, anxiety, depression, stress and anger management, trauma, grief and loss, life transitions, relationship challenges, addictions, domestic violence, parenting, divorce, crisis intervention, and personality disorders. My clients include families, couples, teens, individuals and groups.
I look forward to working with you!
You are not a drop in the ocean,
you are the entire ocean in a single drop. ~ Rumi ~
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Raj Chehl is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Michigan and Texas with 23 years of experience helping people move from merely surviving to living with greater clarity and emotional balance. Located in Michigan, he combines conventional psychotherapy with complementary practices to support clients in creating lasting mental and emotional well-being.
He earned a Bachelor of Science from North Carolina State University in 1980 and a Master of Arts from Oakland University in 2002. In addition to his counseling credentials, he is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, which informs his work by drawing on ancient practices that support emotional, mental, and physical awareness.
Raj approaches therapy as a collaborative process in which he helps clients explore and clarify their needs, examine thoughts and reactions, and make practical changes in behavior and perspective. He uses a flexible, multi-modal method that weaves together person-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, existential and psychodynamic insights, Gestalt work, Internal Family Systems, Ketamine Assisted Therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies to meet each person where they are.
He works with individuals, couples, families, teens, and groups on a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, addictions, eating disorders, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family conflict, career difficulties, anger management, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. By fostering greater self-understanding and acceptance, he supports clients in replacing limiting beliefs with more empowering perspectives.
Raj values a safe therapeutic environment where people can practice new ways of relating to themselves and others and, when ready, bring those changes into the rest of their lives. He looks forward to working with those ready to take the next step toward improved emotional health.
“You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a single drop.” ~ Rumi
Many people wonder whether virtual counseling can truly help. For common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and navigating life changes, online therapy has been shown to be comparable in effectiveness to traditional in-person sessions.
One of the main advantages is convenience and flexibility – clients can connect in the format that best suits them, whether by video call, phone session, live chat, or in-app messaging. This flexibility makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to access support from different locations.
All therapists referred to here are licensed professionals, and clients have the option to switch therapists if they feel a different fit would be more helpful. Online therapy makes evidence-based support more accessible while maintaining the professional standards of licensed therapists.
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