Rachel Lackovic , LCSW

Rachel Lackovic is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of experience. She practices in Pennsylvania and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and related life challenges. Rachel brings a direct, down-to-earth style to sessions and aims to help clients move toward their goals at a steady pace.

She uses a person-centered approach, which means she listens first and tailors the work to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, features often in sessions to help people spot unhelpful thinking and change patterns that keep them stuck. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are used when practical skills and short-term goals are the priority.

Rachel has worked with people facing parenting strain, relationship and family concerns, eating difficulties, anger, self-esteem issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and career stress. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver burnout, fertility and cancer-related challenges, hoarding, and grief. Her experience includes both individual and group work in clinical settings.

In the room she offers straightforward guidance and collaborative planning. Clients set the direction and she helps map steps toward those goals. Sessions often include exercises, simple behavioral experiments, and conversational coaching to build skills that can be used between meetings.

Rachel describes therapy as a shared journey where the client steers and she provides tools, feedback, and direction. Her aim is to help people make practical changes, recover a sense of control, and move toward healthier routines and relationships.

How Rachel’s Approaches Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and adapting to each person's needs. Sessions emphasize the client's priorities and build plans that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tests small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple practices to increase present-moment awareness and manage stress and worry.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaboration. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful. That process helps make sessions feel relevant and productive rather than one-size-fits-all.

Online formats offer flexibility for different days and tasks. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual tools. Phone sessions work well when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and written coaching possible between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still doing focused clinical work.