About Rachel
Rachel Lackovic is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania with 16 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Her work also addresses parenting concerns, relationship strain, career questions, and problems tied to attention and mood conditions.
Rachel uses a straightforward, person-centered style. She treats the person as the expert on their life and offers practical tools and clear suggestions. Sessions focus on setting realistic goals and taking small steps that add up to change.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness techniques, and solution-focused strategies are common in her sessions. These approaches help people spot unhelpful thoughts, build new habits, manage strong emotions, and move toward concrete goals. Motivational interviewing is used when people need support finding their own motivation for change.
She has worked across many clinical settings and with a wide range of concerns, including hoarding behavior, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and issues stemming from family of origin. That experience shapes a pragmatic approach that aims for useful, everyday progress rather than abstract talk. Rachel frames therapy as a collaborative journey.
She offers guidance and a roadmap while the person decides the direction. Her style is warm and direct, with an emphasis on building coping skills and practical plans that fit each person’s life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people make their own choices about change. This approach is useful when someone needs support clarifying values and deciding next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sessions often include simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Short practices help people notice emotions and respond more deliberately, which can help with anger, grief, and chronic worry.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist helps figure out which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work for quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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