Rayna Vergiels, LMFT
Practical, faith-integrated therapy for serious life challenges
About Rayna
Rayna Vergiels is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Kentucky. She offers faith-integrated, evidence-based counseling for people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and big life changes.
Background and approach
Rayna focuses on clear goals and practical steps to help people move forward. Her sessions are structured and goal-oriented while remaining compassionate.
She uses tools that aim to build self-esteem, increase confidence, and bring clarity about next steps. Rayna welcomes Christian faith as part of the process when clients choose to include it.
Rayna emphasizes practical strategies that can be used between sessions. She works with clients to set small, achievable goals and track progress over time.
This approach helps people notice shifts and build resilience. Conversation in a session is direct but supportive.
Topics often include managing panic, addressing trauma and abuse, working through family of origin concerns, and coping with isolation or grief. Rayna also helps people who struggle with eating-related issues, guilt and shame, and questions of life purpose.
With four years of clinical experience, Rayna brings a calm, focused style to therapy. She aims to make each session useful and understandable.
The work is collaborative: clients and Rayna plan what to try next and adjust as needed.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online sessions
Rayna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and usable tools. One common approach she uses centers on practical skills training to manage anxiety and panic attacks, teaching breathing and grounding strategies and simple behavior changes that reduce symptoms. Another approach emphasizes trauma-informed methods that help process distressing memories and reduce reactivity through paced work and stabilization skills.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rayna works with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. She welcomes clients who want to include Christian faith in their work and integrates that preference when requested.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break or lower bandwidth situations, and live chat or text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and keep progress moving between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Indiana
- Languages
- English