About Rachel
Rachel Lackovic is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people work through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and other life challenges. Rachel brings a steady, practical style to sessions and aims to help people meet the goals they set for themselves.
She uses a person-centered stance, meaning the client guides the work and Rachel offers tools and guidance.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a primary method she uses to help people notice patterns and try different behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational strategies when those fit the situation. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
Rachel helps people break problems into manageable steps. She often focuses on skills people can use between sessions to reduce stress and improve day-to-day functioning. Her experience includes work with relationship and family concerns, hoarding behavior, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and life transitions.
Rachel seeks to help people make practical changes and rebuild routines that support wellbeing. People who choose her can expect a collaborative approach where the client’s priorities shape the plan. Rachel describes the relationship as a road map she helps hold while the client stays in the driver’s seat.
Her aim is steady support and realistic, usable strategies.
How Rachel’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work means sessions focus on what the client wants to change. Rachel listens first, then offers options and coaching so the client stays in control of goals and pacing. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to see what works for problems like anxiety, low mood, or difficulty with routine.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel treats approach selection as a shared decision. She will talk with the client about goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what feels useful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options give flexibility for different needs and schedules while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- 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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