Rachel Lackovic, LCSW

Rachel Lackovic is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Pennsylvania with 16 years of experience. She has spent much of her career offering individual, group, and relationship-focused therapy to people facing depression, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Her background includes work with hoarding behavior, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and a wide range of stress-related issues.

Rachel uses a person-centered stance that keeps the client in charge of their goals. She often pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helping people notice patterns of thinking and try practical experiments that change how they feel. She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to help clients find manageable steps forward.

Sessions tend to focus on clear, achievable goals. Rachel helps people break large problems into small, testable actions. She frames therapy as a collaborative journey where the client directs the destination and she helps map the route.

Her additional focus includes caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, family of origin issues, abandonment concerns, and aging-related questions. She also works with concerns such as eating struggles, control issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and communication problems.

Rachel emphasizes practical skill building and accountability alongside empathy. She encourages clients to try new behaviors between sessions and to use simple tools for coping with anxiety, grief, and major life changes. This approach aims to make progress feel realistic and steady.

Approaches that translate to online work

Client-centered work focuses on the persons goals and priorities, letting the client steer sessions while the therapist listens and reflects. This approach helps with stress, life changes, and building motivation to try new behaviors.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses short experiments and clear homework to shift unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping challenges.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices and grounding skills to reduce reactivity and manage emotion. It pairs well with CBT when people want both practical tools and emotional regulation skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time rather than prescribing a single path.

Confirm the session formats available before booking, as specific online options are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow for brief check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce the time spent traveling to appointments. These practical benefits can help people maintain consistency while they work on midlife transitions, grief, stress, and other concerns.