Dr. Rachel Glik, EdD, LPC

Dr. Rachel Glik, EdD, LPC Dr. Rachel Glik—licensed counselor, relationship specialist, and author of A Soulful Marriage—has spent 30+ years helping people turn challenges into growth.
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She blends psychotherapy with Kabbalah for a grounded, human approach to healing & connection. After 22 years in private practice, and even longer as a married woman and mother, I feel privileged to say I specialize in "relationships." I love inspiring women and men to look more within themselves for happiness, security, value - and to understand that friction in relationships can be just what we need to grow. Those open to change benefit most ... a healthy couple takes healthy people. I also love meeting with people individually. It often starts off with some kind of relationship friction or lack of fulfillment. But when it comes down to it, the internal struggles await at the core. So many of us need help with low self worth, anxiety, negative thoughts, feeling stuck and/or some degree of trauma. I must say, most become amazed by their own power when they connect to their true selves. I pray that my own awe of our growth potential never wanes. It's hard to see it while in the midst of pain, but I dare to say that our thorns, what appears to be things going the wrong way, these can become our greatest gifts - pushing us to grow, to be and feel better and stronger, and to create the life we truly desire. I am known as a counselor for soul searchers, which can be seen behind closed doors in the intimate sessions filling my days, as well as a TV regular on Fox2 AM show and the blog writing to which I hope to devote even more time. Something unique I am grateful to bring to my clients and viewers comes from the robust and beautiful blend of a traditional doctoral training, years of counseling experience along with decades of immersing myself in personal growth and universal spiritual wisdom. I am someone who feels that I can only help others with that which I have a familiarity myself. I take my own growth and life balance to heart. It's a way of life, a way of love and a way of sharing what I have learned and continue to become from the grit of embracing being alive.

11/18/2025

Today's TRUE/FALSE challenge: Should your partner make you their #1 priority❓

11/14/2025

Rachel’s Relationship Challenge!
True or false: I’m in a close relationship — I should feel free to say whatever is on my mind, right? 💜💡

Thrilled to share my interview on the Behavioral Grooves Podcast exploring how the foundation for a strong relationship ...
10/22/2025

Thrilled to share my interview on the Behavioral Grooves Podcast exploring how the foundation for a strong relationship begins with individual growth, self awareness, and taking personal responsibility for your own happiness and well being. Basically, putting your own airmask on first! I loved this wide-ranging conversation, and hope you do too.

Thank you show hosts Kurt Nelson, PhD and Tim Houlihan for digging in deep!

10/15/2025

To say that parent/adult child estrangement is painful is an understatement and the reasons behind it are complicated to unravel. But I enjoyed this conversation with Denise where we broke down how parental OVERGIVING can lead to RESENTMENT over time.

10/14/2025

Parenting adult children requires a delicate balance. Yes, we’re here to nurture that connection, but it must come from a place of emotional wholeness — not need or control. When our kids feel truly supported for who they are authentically they’re far more open to finding common ground. Even in the face of real differences, whether that be in lifestyle, politics, or life choices.

10/13/2025

As parents, we pour so much into our children that we can lose touch with what lights us up at a soul level. Whether it’s the arts, friendships, nature, or simply adding value to the world in your own way — this journey back to self is where real freedom lives. So, don’t wait – make time to nourish yourself.

This is often the unexpected advice I give to parents, especially moms, whose children have gone low or no contact. Repair begins with honoring your relationship with yourself. I share this same advice with those who’ve become empty nesters, and loved talking about this, and much more, with Denise Gorant on her Bite Your Tongue: The Podcast.


When Jeff and I first got married, I thought that our deep love for each other would make us happy, heal our wounds, and...
10/08/2025

When Jeff and I first got married, I thought that our deep love for each other would make us happy, heal our wounds, and make our marriage strong and fulfilling. But we soon learned that there’s more to a SOULFUL marriage. Much more.

It turns out that LOVE is a verb, something you build not merely a feeling you expectantly hope for, or presume will last or get stronger on its own.

Love requires EFFORT. Effort to appreciate, effort to be thoughtful, effort to open your heart, effort to address wedges, effort to be helpful, effort to make room on your calendar for not just what’s urgent, but what’s most important.

And it’s worth it.

10/07/2025

Is there conflict in your relationship? It may feel intolerable, but believe it or not, it can be the key to unlocking a SOULFUL connection with your partner. It’s your attitude about what conflict means in your relationship, and “how” partners address it that makes all the difference. I talked about this at length on The Couples Therapist Couch podcast with Shane Birkel, and as I wrote in my book, A Soulful Marriage:

“By the time most couples land on my couch, it’s their friction that has pushed them out of their comfort zone to seek counseling. They don’t know how to take their conflict and use it soulfully to grow.”

What matters most to me isn’t praise. It’s resonance.When someone like Dr. Meg Jay says that A Soulful Marriage should c...
10/02/2025

What matters most to me isn’t praise. It’s resonance.

When someone like Dr. Meg Jay says that A Soulful Marriage should come with every marriage license, what I really hear is this: people are hungry for deeper guidance.

Not just advice. Not surface strategies.
But an honest, spiritual, psychologically sound path through love’s hardest moments.

If you’re in that space, this book was written for you. And it was written from lived experience and sound wisdom — both scientific and spiritual.

You’ll find this guidance and more in my book.
https://www.drrachelglik.com/a-soulful-marriage

09/29/2025

You may be new to having an “empty nest,” and it may be comforting to realize that you’ve been “empty nesting” for your child’s entire life. Going through small transitions that enable children to individuate from their parents and parents to do the same. It’s this slow letting go that happens over years with each new milestone that helps us build beautiful adult relationships with our grown children.

That’s just one topic Fox2Now host Margie Ellisor TV and I discussed in-depth. Watch the full segment for our conversations about “empty nest divorce,” putting your relationship first, ways to make your partner a priority, “growth nights,” and more!

https://fox2now.com/video/tips-for-empty-nesters-as-kids-go-to-college/10998766/

It is not your partner’s responsibility to make you happy, or yours for them. We are each responsible for your own happi...
09/24/2025

It is not your partner’s responsibility to make you happy, or yours for them. We are each responsible for your own happiness and well-being.

That’s why I made RESPONSIBILITY the first pillar of A Soulful Marriage. It’s where true connection begins.

Our relationship with ourselves is the foundation, not just of a soulful marriage, but of every healthy, lasting relationship, and it’s something most people don’t realize going in. I didn’t.

In the early years of my own marriage, this lack of understanding caused a lot of heartache. I was holding my husband responsible for my happiness in ways I didn’t even realize. And he was holding himself responsible for my happiness too. It’s what he learned growing up.

This wasn’t a recipe for long term success. But thankfully, we did the hard work and today, we love and respect each other more than ever.

https://www.drrachelglik.com/a-soulful-marriage

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