About Rachel
Rachel Khan-McCroy is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She uses clear, direct conversation to help people manage depression, grief, trauma, and major life changes. Rachel keeps sessions grounded and goal-focused, aiming to build coping skills that fit each person’s daily life.
Rachel draws on about 11 years of experience in social work practice. She emphasizes that people know their own stories and works in a collaborative way.
Background and approach
In sessions she reflects strengths and helps people identify strategies that feel realistic for them. Her work often addresses trauma and abuse, complicated grief, low self-esteem, and the stress of life transitions. She also supports people dealing with issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and body image worries.
Rachel brings a practical focus to these concerns so people can try specific tools between sessions. Her approach combines client-centered therapy with cognitive-behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness. That mix lets her tailor sessions to both immediate problems and longer-term coping.
She also uses principles from the Gottman Method when relationship communication is a concern. Rachel holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, often written as LCSW, and practices in New Jersey. She offers sessions in English and welcomes people from outside the U.S. who prefer online work.
To begin, a short matching process helps connect someone to the right schedule and format.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Rachel blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people manage current problems and build new habits. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person’s own goals, while CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers concrete tools for change.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT skills teach practical techniques for reducing overwhelm and improving relationships, which can help with mood swings, intense stress, or persistent emotional pain.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English