About Rachel
Rachel Chernow is a licensed clinical professional counselor with an MD and LCPC who helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, addiction concerns, and ADHD. She approaches each person with warmth and a calm presence so they feel heard from the first session. Rachel aims to build a strong working relationship as the foundation for change.
Rachel has practiced in Maryland for 13 years in both personal and community settings.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, and adjustment concerns. She draws on a mix of client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness to meet each person's needs. In sessions she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
That might mean breaking problems into smaller parts, testing new ways of thinking, or practicing attention and grounding skills. She also talks through relationship and family stress, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, and workplace pressures. Rachel takes a collaborative stance.
She and the client set goals together and adjust the plan as progress is made. She emphasizes clear, manageable strategies and regular check-ins so people can see what is changing between sessions. Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to help people gain more control over mood, behavior, and daily routines.
Rachel supports coping with life transitions, rebuilding routines, and developing tools to manage attention and overwhelm.
How Rachel’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so clients feel understood and can set their own goals. It helps when someone needs support sorting out priorities and deciding what to try next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together and teaches concrete techniques to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and manage impulsive habits. It is useful for tackling specific patterns that cause distress.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These skills can help with sleep issues, emotional regulation, and sustaining attention during daily tasks.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on how things are going.
Online sessions offer flexibility and easier access to care. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper work, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, live chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief reflections between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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