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Click on the Therapy Collective button below for the contact information for therapists:

Alisha Allen, LLPC

Brianna Bodary, LLMSW

Renee Diener, LMSW

Lori Fields, LLPC 

For scheduling with Rachel Achatz, LPC, click on the button, "Contact Rachel".

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"HELPING PEOPLE FIND HOPE, EXPERIENCE PEACE, AND REDISCOVER JOY"

Charis Counseling Services of Northeast Michigan, the private professional counseling practice of Rachel Achatz, MA LPC NCC specializes in providing in-person couples therapy, family therapy, and co-parenting counseling services to the Northeast Michigan Community as well as tele-health services throughout the state of Michigan.

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Cha•ris  (kā′ris)

The word CHARIS (pronounced “care us”) is Greek for grace. Grace is undeserved support or acts of kindness. In brief, it means that God desires the best for us so He unconditionally provides what we do not have and cannot supply for ourselves. The word CHARIS is the inspiration for CHARIS Counseling Services of Northeast Michigan. 


CHARIS was started in 2015 the outpatient counseling practice of Rachel Achatz, LPC. After managing Charis as a group practice for six years, Rachel has returned to individual private practice in order to provide specialized counseling services to couples and families.

Rachel is passionate about facilitating growth in people and helping them experience the hope, peace, and joy that God desires for them.   She believes that we are all searching for something to satisfy a deep longing to fill the emptiness inside.  We can try to fill it relationships, alcohol, drugs, sex, self-fulfillment, but ultimately the only thing that will satisfy the deepest longings of the soul are a relationship with God. Augustine prayed, "You have made us for yourself, 0 Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you."


Rachel utilizes this worldview as a foundation to provide caring, compassionate, and competent mental health treatment. However,  she respects the dignity and worth of all people, and their right to privacy, their right to their own beliefs, and their right to make their own decisions.  Therapeutic interventions are client-centered.  She desires each person to experience quality treatment that moves people towards their goals.  She offers services to all people regardless of age, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, national origin, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, or socioeconomic status.

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Counseling and Consultation Services

Services Provided

  • Couples and Marriage Counseling

  • Coparenting Education

  • Coparenting Counseling

  • Family Therapy

  • Parenting Education

  • Parent Management Training Groups

  • Pre-marital Therapy

  • Clinical Supervision

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Conditions Treated

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Bipolar Disorder

  • Complex Trauma

  • Physical, Sexual, and Spiritual Abuse

  • Post-Separation/Divorce Issues

  • High Conflict Divorce

  • Cutting and other self-harmful behaviors

  • Difficulty with life transitions

  • Parenting Issues

  • Marital Issues

  • Relationship Issues

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"We don't have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to."

Brené Brown

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