About Rochelle
Rochelle Fried brings four decades of psychotherapy experience to her work in California. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with a long history of helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, and major life changes. Rochelle uses a calm, practical style to help people find clearer next steps.
Over her career she has supported people across many stages of life and a range of concerns. Her background includes work in hospital settings such as a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a long tenure at a children’s cancer center where she moved from clinician to assistant director of psychosocial and behavioral services.
Background and approach
Those roles gave her wide exposure to medical, emotional, and family stresses. Rochelle has also worked in custody mediation inside the family court system and maintained a independent practice alongside institutional roles. She shifted to full-time independent practice in 1995 and has continued to see adults, couples, and family matters since then.
Her approach emphasizes practical tools and problem solving that people can use between sessions. In sessions she focuses on communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and the sense of isolation that often accompanies depression or life transitions. Rochelle pays attention to relationship patterns and helps people clarify life purpose and self-care.
She aims to make therapy a straightforward place to talk things through and try new skills. Rochelle offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She adapts to each person’s needs and helps set small, achievable goals so progress feels manageable and realistic.
Evidence-Based Techniques and Online Care
Rochelle draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try new ways of responding to stress and anxiety; it is useful for worry, social anxiety, and low mood. Another approach emphasizes building communication skills and repairing relationship patterns, which can help when couples or family interactions feel stuck.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rochelle works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She revisits what helps and adjusts course if something is not working, so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat make shorter check-ins and flexible scheduling easier. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between appointments and to use therapy in ways that match day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English