About Rachel
Rachel Bastien-Chilson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She aims to meet clients where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable. Sessions emphasize honest conversation, compassion, and practical steps to feel steadier day to day.
Rachel does not rush to fix things. She focuses on gently shifting habits and beliefs that once helped but now hold people back.
Background and approach
Work with her can be reflective and inward, or practical and goal-focused depending on what each person needs. A warm, human approach and sometimes a touch of humor help make sessions approachable. With eleven years in mental health and crisis work, Rachel brings experience supporting people through hard transitions.
Her style is collaborative and strengths-based, highlighting clients' existing resources. She pays attention to present thoughts, feelings, relationships, and behavior patterns while drawing on past experiences when that helps move therapy forward. People can expect active, engaging sessions that evolve as progress happens.
Rachel aims to build trust so clients can try new ways of relating to themselves and others. Her goal is to help people develop tools and insight that support long-term change. She works in English and practices in New York.
Rachel combines steady clinical experience with a personable manner to help people manage anxiety, cope with loss, and rebuild confidence.
Approaches That Guide Online Work and What They Do
Rachel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that blend reflection and practical skill-building. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing it against real-world evidence to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method helps people notice patterns and try small behavioral changes to feel more in control.Another strand of her work centers on strengthening relationships and attachment patterns. That approach looks at how past connections affect current reactions and teaches new ways to communicate and set boundaries, which can ease relationship stress and codependency issues.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats work for quick check-ins or shorter, ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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