Rachel Lackovic
Compassionate guidance for life's challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rachel
Rachel Lackovic is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Pennsylvania. She brings 16 years of experience in social work to her sessions. Rachel meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps toward goals they set for themselves.
She uses a person-centered stance in sessions and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Rachel primarily draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to help people find small, manageable changes. In conversations she listens with curiosity and offers clear suggestions based on what the client wants to achieve. Sessions focus on problem solving, coping skills, and breaking large issues into smaller steps.
Topics she commonly addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, relationships, eating issues, anger, self-esteem, career matters, bipolar challenges, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Rachel also has experience with a wide range of related concerns such as abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, family of origin issues, fertility problems, guilt and shame, hoarding, and aging issues.
She aims to help people identify realistic next steps and build momentum toward their goals. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Rachel encourages clients to make choices that fit their values and life.
She frames therapy as a shared journey where clients lead and she supports with tools and guidance.
How Rachel’s approaches work in online therapy
Rachel often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical changes in behavior. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which means the conversation follows the client’s priorities. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps clients decide which goals matter most to them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will talk with each person about goals and preferences and help choose methods that fit their needs. That plan can change over time based on what helps most, making the process a collaboration rather than a fixed prescription.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to access therapy from home or work. These options allow for flexible scheduling and different ways to communicate when speaking live may not be ideal. Many clients use a mix of formats to fit their routines while working on concrete skills and steps between sessions.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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