Rachel Kriegel
Support for stress and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rachel
Rachel Kriegel is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and issues with self-esteem and career concerns. She keeps conversations direct and practical, creating room for honest talk without judgment. Rachel emphasizes small, doable steps so parents and adults can feel steadier and more confident in daily life.
She uses clear strategies from evidence-informed approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work.
Background and approach
Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thoughts, setting realistic goals, and planning specific actions to try between meetings. Rachel aims for straightforward tools that clients can use right away at home or work. With ten years of experience in New Jersey, Rachel draws on varied settings to offer down-to-earth support.
Her background includes assisting people facing life changes, relationship and family problems, and concerns tied to caregiving, adoption, aging, and chronic health challenges. She also addresses issues such as loneliness, guilt, and a search for life purpose. Conversations are paced to the person.
Rachel listens for practical barriers and helps people build skills to handle them. Progress is measured in real-life changes like improved routines, calmer reactions, or clearer communication. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Approach and online care that fits family life
Rachel uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thought and behavior that make stress or anxiety worse; this approach often focuses on specific habits and skills to try between sessions. Motivational interviewing is used to explore a persons own reasons for change and to build motivation without pressure, which can be helpful for parenting goals or career shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they review what feels useful and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. These options let people connect from home, during breaks, or while traveling, and allow for flexible scheduling and follow-up between appointments.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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