About Rachel
Rachel Chernow greets each person with a calm, straightforward manner. She focuses first on making someone feel heard and understood. That initial connection guides the rest of the work and helps people feel safe talking about hard things.
Rachel is a medical doctor and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - MD and LCPC. She has practiced in Maryland for 13 years in personal and community settings. Her background includes helping people who face anxiety, depression, bipolar mood difficulties, grief, addiction, sleep problems, parenting stress, and life changes.
Background and approach
Rachel blends a client-centered stance with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness. In sessions she listens, reflects concerns back, and helps people try concrete strategies to manage symptoms. She also uses mindfulness exercises to build steady attention and calm in everyday moments.
People who work with her often focus on practical goals like improving sleep, reducing panic, managing anger, or handling workplace stress. She also addresses relationship and family patterns, attachment concerns, and issues tied to caregiver strain and codependency. Therapy starts with a conversation about what matters most to the client.
From there Rachel and the client shape a plan that fits their life and goals, adjusting approach as progress unfolds. This straightforward, collaborative style supports steady, manageable change.
How Rachel’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel understood and sets the stage for change by prioritizing the therapeutic relationship.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Rachel uses CBT techniques to help people test unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and change patterns that feed anxiety, depression, or anger.
Mindfulness therapy trains attention and gentle acceptance of the present moment. Short exercises and breathing practices are used to reduce reactivity and support better sleep and emotional balance.
Choosing the right mix of these approaches is a collaborative process. Rachel will talk with each person about goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan based on what’s working and what isn’t. The aim is a practical fit between the person’s needs and therapy methods.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match a person’s life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins and brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy days and changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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