About Rachel
Rachel Margolin is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience. She holds LCSW credentials in Pennsylvania and brings decades of practice to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Rachel is LGBTQ affirmative and focuses on helping people find clearer paths forward.
Her style is warm and interactive. She listens first and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions aim to meet people where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable.
How Rachel works
Rachel uses a mix of practical strategies and reflective work. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and reactions.
People come to Rachel for a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, relationship strain, grief, addiction, ADHD, career challenges, and identity matters such as gender dysphoria. She also supports those coping with adoption and foster care questions, aging and geriatric issues, and family of origin struggles. Sessions may include skills practice, emotional processing, and goal-focused coaching.
The aim is to build tools that work in everyday life and to reduce patterns that keep people stuck. Rachel encourages small steps that add up to meaningful change.
Rachel lists 10 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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rachel draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy along with client-centered work to shape online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking action toward values-based goals; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships influence emotions and behavior, which can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and family of origin concerns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, offering a nonjudgmental space to talk and make choices.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals and preferences, try specific techniques, and adjust the plan over time based on what helps. Clients are encouraged to share feedback so sessions stay practical and targeted to their needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a good fit when video bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, homework prompts, or coaching-style support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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