About Rachel
Rachel Lauria is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps that reduce daily overwhelm and build steady coping skills for hard moments. She creates a calm, cooperative space where clients set goals and try new ways of responding to feelings.
Sessions are conversational and direct. Rachel listens closely and helps people notice patterns that get in the way of their goals.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness. She uses tools from these methods to help people change unhelpful thinking, manage strong emotions, and practice small behavior shifts between sessions. Rachel also addresses family-related stress, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and grief.
She supports people working through relationship communication problems, control issues, and life transitions such as separation or end-of-life planning. In sessions she emphasizes skills people can use right away and slower work on underlying patterns when needed. With three years of clinical experience, Rachel combines structured exercises and open conversation to help people build more stable days and clearer next steps.
Therapeutic approaches for remote care and skill practice
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking actions that match personal values. It can help when anxiety or avoidance interferes with daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change patterns that worsen mood or anxiety. That approach is useful for phobias, obsessive thoughts, and mood shifts. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase steady presence, which supports stress management and emotional regulation.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and try techniques that match their needs and preferences. Over time methods can be adjusted based on what works in real life so clients learn tools they can use outside sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and quick problem-solving during busy days. These formats make it simpler to fit care into work, caregiving, and other routines while still practicing evidence-informed methods.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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