About Rachel
Rachel Cohen is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey with ten years of experience. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, or dealing with depression. Parents facing postpartum anxiety or other parenting stresses can find practical support.
She also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and grief. Rachel draws on straightforward, collaborative methods in sessions. She works with each person to set clear, achievable goals.
How Rachel works
Sessions focus on practical steps for handling day-to-day struggles and on strengthening supports at home and work. Her background includes work in medical settings and experience with childhood cancer-related concerns. She also spent several years in the eating disorder field and has maintained a independent practice.
Those experiences shape how she notices patterns and suggests coping options. Rachel often blends client-centered conversations with evidence-based tools. She uses techniques that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, manage strong emotions, and find motivation for change.
Her work with attachment and blended family issues informs how she approaches relationship and family stressors. Sessions are intended to be interactive and focused on real-time solutions. Rachel aims to create a warm, positive atmosphere where people feel heard and can try new coping skills.
Reaching out is a first step, and she invites people to take that step when they are ready.
Rachel lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Rachel works with
The areas below are the ones Rachel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Rachel often uses client-centered methods to create a collaborative space where the person sets goals and guides the conversation. This approach helps when someone needs to talk through feelings and decide what matters most to them.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT offers concrete tools for changing unhelpful thinking and improving daily routines, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review goals, needs, and preferences and suggest ways of working. Clients and the therapist choose methods that fit current concerns and adjust them over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, processing between sessions, and people who prefer writing over talking.
These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to try techniques in real time. Licensed professionals can tailor exercises and homework to the session format so progress continues between meetings.
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