About Rachel
Rachel Weinstein is an Illinois licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 22 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or changes in relationships. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at making the next step feel possible.
Clients meet a therapist who listens before offering ideas. Sessions focus on practical ways to cope with daily stress, manage anxiety, and work through loss. Rachel values straightforward conversation and tailors the pace to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Her background includes independent practice and work in medical settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, and hospice. That range shaped an ability to address health-related concerns, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and aging issues alongside emotional concerns. Rachel uses evidence-based methods, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), when appropriate.
She explains techniques in plain language and helps people try them at a steady pace. The goal is to reduce distress and build clearer ways to handle triggers and memories. Sessions are offered in English and Hebrew and can address identity concerns, family-of-origin issues, communication problems, and career-related stress.
Rachel emphasizes respect and compassion, and she aims to help people feel heard and to find workable steps forward.
Approaches and how they work in online therapy
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a method that helps people process distressing memories and reduce the emotional intensity they carry. Sessions may include focused attention, guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation while a person recalls upsetting events to help the brain process them differently.Rachel also uses practical coping strategies to reduce daily anxiety and manage stress. These are hands-on tools such as breathing techniques, grounding exercises, and problem-solving steps that can be practiced between sessions to ease symptoms and increase stability.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Rachel works together with each person to decide what methods to try and adjusts those choices over time based on what feels helpful. The goal is to match treatment to the person's needs, comfort level, and goals in therapy.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for in-depth work and EMDR-style sessions, phone calls can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy going despite work, caregiving, or mobility constraints.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
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