Rachel Schwartz

Rachel Schwartz is a New York licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with nine years of professional experience. She helps people who are coping with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Rachel also addresses compassion fatigue and workplace stress in her work.

She focuses on practical conversation and steady problem solving. Sessions are a place to talk through difficult memories, work out what matters now, and practice ways to manage overwhelming feelings. Rachel aims to reduce shame and help people notice what gets in the way of acting on their values.

Rachel pays attention to how stress and roles at work affect mood and relationships. She helps clients name repeated patterns around control, communication, and guilt. That can mean trying new ways of speaking up, setting boundaries, or testing small behavior changes between sessions.

When grief or trauma are the main concern, she offers calm pacing and clear next steps. With life purpose questions, she helps people break larger decisions into manageable choices and experiments. Sessions also cover rebuilding self-worth after loss or abuse.

Rachel offers services in English and Hebrew. Her practice is based in New York and reflects nearly a decade of clinical work across common adult concerns.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Rachel draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills practice and emotional processing. One common approach she uses involves pacing difficult memories so a person can process traumatic material without becoming overwhelmed; this helps when post-traumatic stress or past abuse are central issues. Another approach emphasizes behavioral experiments and real-world practice to address low self-esteem, workplace problems, or repeated control patterns; clients try small changes between sessions and then review what happened.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each client to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts pacing and techniques as needs change. The process is a shared decision between therapist and client rather than a fixed plan.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. It can also make camera-free or audio-only meetings possible when a lighter check-in is preferred. If you want to proceed, check the practice's session format list and choose what fits your routine.