Rachel Chernow, LCPC

Rachel Chernow greets visitors with a straightforward focus on practical help. She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, based in Maryland with 13 years of experience. Rachel aims to build a warm, respectful connection first so clients feel heard and understood before moving into skill work.

Rachel uses clear conversation and concrete strategies to address stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, bipolar challenges, and sleep or mood concerns. She also helps people with relationship and family problems, parenting strain, career stress, grief, and challenges around self-esteem and anger. Thoughts and everyday habits are a recurring focus in her work, and she helps people notice patterns that keep problems going and try small, manageable changes.

Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices. That means sessions often begin with the client’s priorities, then move toward identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. Mindfulness skills are offered as simple tools for focus, emotion regulation, and stress relief.

Rachel has worked in private practice and community settings and holds a master’s degree in clinical counseling. She describes the first sessions as a time to agree goals and plan steps that fit each person’s life. Her style is collaborative and steady, aimed at practical progress rather than quick fixes.

People who want a therapist who pays attention to everyday thoughts and habits may find her approach useful. She asks clients to help set priorities and to try achievable changes between visits.

How client-centered, CBT, and mindfulness translate to online work

Client-centered work puts the person's priorities first and creates space to talk about what matters most. In online sessions this looks like starting each meeting by asking what to focus on and adapting the pace to the person’s needs.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot thinking and behavior patterns that maintain problems and then try small experiments to change them. In remote sessions this often involves setting brief between-session tasks and reviewing results together to see what helps.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce stress and refocus attention. These techniques can be practiced in short exercises during a session and then repeated throughout the week for steady benefit.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively with the client to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and daily routine. That means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and adjusting plans together.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as they are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and support practicing skills between sessions without rearranging a day.