Rachel Cohen
Supporting parents through life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rachel
Rachel Cohen is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 10 years of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns and supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Rachel often helps those coping with medical issues, eating-related struggles, grief, and relationship problems.
Her tone is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at parents and caregivers looking for straightforward guidance. Rachel brings a collaborative and interactive style to sessions.
Background and approach
She works side by side with clients to set clear, attainable goals. In sessions she focuses on real-time solutions and building supports both inside and outside the home. Her background includes work with individuals and families affected by medical issues, including childhood cancer.
She also has several years of experience in the eating disorder field and has maintained a independent practice. Those experiences shape how she responds to complex stress and health-related concerns. Rachel has a particular interest in supporting new parents as they adjust to parenthood.
This includes work around postpartum anxiety and depression, fertility concerns, and pregnancy or infant loss. She aims to help parents find practical coping strategies and restore day-to-day functioning. Sessions are offered in English and Rachel holds a New Jersey LCSW license.
She aims to create a warm atmosphere where people can talk through worries, learn skills, and set steps toward change.
Approaches that guide online family and parenting care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and meeting people where they are. The therapist offers empathy and support while clients set the pace and priorities, which helps when adjusting to parenting or coping with loss.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors tied to anxiety, low mood, or stress. It provides practical exercises and tools that people can use between sessions to manage symptoms and improve daily routines.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. This can be useful for handling intense parenting moments, anger, or relationship conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of work together. Rachel will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on what helps most in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions are an option when video is not convenient, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These formats aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy family schedule.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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