Rachel Cohen, LCSW

Rachel Cohen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New Jersey with 10 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, depression, and life transitions. Rachel also lists blended family issues among her focus areas and helps people navigate the practical challenges that come with merging households.

She has worked with people coping with medical concerns, including childhood cancer, and has clinical experience in the eating disorder field and private practice. Rachel often sees parents adjusting to new roles and addresses post-partum anxiety and depression, fertility concerns, and pregnancy or infant loss. She uses straightforward methods to tackle day-to-day problems.

Her style is collaborative and interactive. Sessions focus on clear goals the client and therapist agree on. Rachel blends client-centered listening with problem-solving techniques so conversations move toward concrete changes.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when managing mood, anxiety, or overwhelming emotions. She also uses motivational interviewing to support ambivalence and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat from earlier relationships.

When working with blended household concerns she emphasizes communication, role clarity, and practical routines that reduce friction. Her approach aims to build both internal coping skills and external supports, such as realistic agreements about parenting tasks, boundaries with ex-partners, and ways to negotiate loyalty conflicts.

To begin, Rachel asks people to identify a small, achievable goal and then tracks progress over short periods. Sessions are focused and pragmatic, with attention to emotion and relationship patterns rather than lectures or abstract theory.