Rachel Chernow
Calm practical support for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- MD, LCPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rachel
Rachel Chernow, MD, LCPC, focuses on helping people manage stress, parenting challenges, mood difficulties, and everyday life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what families and individuals need. Her style is warm and steady, aiming to build a trusting connection so clients feel safe talking about hard things.
She brings 13 years of clinical experience and has practiced in both personal and community settings in Maryland. Rachel uses evidence-based tools and straightforward conversation to address anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, sleep problems, and attention concerns.
Background and approach
She also pays attention to relationship patterns, communication problems, and caregiver stress. In sessions she blends client-centered care with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. That means she starts by listening, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and teaches simple skills to reduce overwhelm.
She works step by step, tailoring practical strategies to each person’s situation. Rachel aims to build a collaborative plan with each client. Together they set clear goals and track small changes over time.
For parents or anyone facing family strain, she focuses on usable tools for communication, boundaries, and self-care. Her approach is direct but compassionate. Sessions move at a comfortable pace and are focused on what will make life feel better day to day.
Rachel offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Online approaches that fit family life
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a strong, respectful relationship first. The therapist listens deeply and helps people feel heard, which can make it easier to talk about parenting stress, relationship issues, or tough emotions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, anger, and managing mood swings by breaking problems into workable steps.
Mindfulness therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve focus. It can help with stress, compassion fatigue, and everyday reactivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. Together they track progress and adjust strategies when needed.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility for busy families. Video calls let people talk face to face from home, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit into hectic schedules. These options make it easier to stay consistent with sessions and to apply new skills between meetings.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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