About Rochelle
Rochelle Nakoa is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 13 years of experience helping people facing trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, and major life changes. She supports people coping with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, caregiving strain, and challenges like ADHD, bipolar disorder, and chronic illness. Rochelle centers conversations on what the person needs now and next.
Rochelle's style is straightforward and person-focused. She listens first, then helps organize thoughts and feelings so change feels more possible.
How Rochelle works
Sessions include gentle guidance, practical tools, and space to reflect on painful events such as abuse or loss. She blends practical techniques and relationship-focused work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Rochelle also draws on existential questions to help people find meaning during transitions. For relationship concerns she incorporates Gottman Method ideas to improve communication and reduce conflict.
Her background includes work with hospice, veterans, people affected by military service, and correctional mental health. Those roles shaped her experience with sexual trauma, intimate partner violence, and complex grief. Rochelle brings that experience into a nonjudgmental setting where people can start to heal.
She practices in Missouri and offers sessions online by video, phone, chat, or text. Rochelle aims to make therapy practical, compassionate, and focused on real change for daily life.
Rochelle lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Rochelle works with
The areas below are the ones Rochelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online support
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and patterns. It helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and build different responses over time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and daily stress. The Gottman Method centers on improving communication and reducing conflict in relationships through clear, teachable skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rochelle will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then shape sessions in collaboration with each person. That way therapy matches the issue at hand, whether it is healing from trauma, managing mood, or improving communication.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for longer, focused sessions and when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or travel make video difficult. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coping tools, or when messaging fits a busy schedule.
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