- Collaborative approach
- Focus on practical steps
- Support for parents
About Rachel
Rachel Cohen is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New Jersey with ten years of experience. She supports people facing stress, sleep problems, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and eating-related issues.
She has worked with people coping with medical issues, including childhood cancer, and spent several years in the eating disorder field. Much of her private practice work has focused on young parents adjusting to parenthood. This includes helping people who are managing post-partum anxiety or depression, fertility struggles, or pregnancy and infant loss.
Her approach is collaborative and interactive. She creates a warm, positive atmosphere and sets goals together with each person. Sessions focus on practical steps that can be used right away and on building supports both inside and outside therapy.
Rachel combines a few therapy styles to match individual needs. She draws on client-centered work to center each person’s experience, cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thinking and behaviors, and psychodynamic perspectives to understand patterns from the past.
People who choose her can expect a straightforward, problem-solving focus alongside attention to emotional caring. She encourages small, doable changes and helps clients build tools for coping with stress, grief, and relationship strain.
Online approaches and what they can offer
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people name their priorities. This approach can help with stress, relationship questions, and adjusting to parenting.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to build new habits, which can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and low mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be helpful for managing anger, intense emotions, and patterns that cause relationship strain.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That decision can change over time as needs shift.
Confirm current online session options before booking, since this profile does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Many people find that remote sessions help maintain continuity of care during life transitions and medical treatment.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Credentials
New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, eating concerns, grief, trauma, and related areas listed on her profile.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and interactive. She sets goals with each person and focuses on practical steps and supports that can be used outside sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker working in clinical and private practice settings, including work with medical issues and eating disorders.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) licensed in New Jersey and maintains her practice in that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She is not accepting international clients, so sessions are available to people within the regions she serves.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.