About Rachel
Rachel Kriegel is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, self-esteem struggles, and career concerns. She writes plainly and listens closely, aiming to make conversations feel simple and direct. Rachel welcomes questions and supports people taking the first step toward change.
She draws on a decade of professional experience in New Jersey. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical strategies that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Rachel encourages honest talk about feelings and everyday obstacles, and she works with each person at their own pace. Her approach uses tools that help identify unhelpful thoughts and shape new habits. She also uses motivational strategies to build momentum and solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable steps.
Together these methods aim to make progress feel doable rather than overwhelming. Rachel often helps people who feel stuck after life changes, who wrestle with parenting pressures, or who want more confidence at work. She also offers support around issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and feelings of isolation.
Her goal is to match practical steps to the concerns you bring. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Rachel works in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She holds the LCSW credential, listed in New Jersey as NJ LCSW 44SC05571500, and brings ten years of clinical practice to her work.
How these approaches work in online therapy
Rachel uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. This approach breaks concerns into small parts so you can test new ways of thinking and acting. Motivational Interviewing focuses on building your own reasons to change, often by clarifying values and next steps so motivation grows naturally.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Rachel will talk with you about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together you will pick or adapt methods that fit your life and adjust them as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls let you have a full face-to-face conversation from wherever you are. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, moment-to-moment support, or when a shorter touchpoint fits better into the day. These options aim to increase flexibility so therapy can match how you already live and work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English