Rachel Lackovic, LCSW

Rachel Lackovic is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of experience in social work. She practices in Pennsylvania and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and other life changes. Rachel uses straightforward, practical methods and respects each person's goals and choices.

She centers sessions on the person in front of her rather than on labels. Rachel often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and combines that with client-centered and mindfulness techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She helps clients set clear, achievable goals and checks progress along the way.

Rachel describes therapy as a shared journey where the client leads and she offers guidance. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to coping skills and real-life problem solving. She supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, career concerns, and challenges tied to health or caregiving.

Her background includes long experience in individual and group settings, and she has worked with people facing hoarding behavior, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She brings patience and a practical focus to sessions, helping clients break big problems into smaller steps.

People who prefer clear structure and collaborative planning tend to do well with Rachel. She works by forming a plan together, practicing skills between sessions, and adjusting the approach as needs change. Her aim is to help people move toward the goals they choose for themselves.

How Rachel’s Approaches Work Online

Rachel often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice new responses. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so clients can test small changes and track results over time.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means sessions focus on the client’s own goals and pacing. The therapist listens closely and mirrors what matters most to the person, then helps shape a plan that fits their life.

Mindfulness Therapy is another tool she draws on to teach simple attention and breathing skills. These techniques can reduce reactivity and help with stress, anxiety, grief, and managing strong emotions.

Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Rachel will discuss options and tailor the mix of methods to a client’s needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing one fixed path.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care and access support from wherever they are in Pennsylvania.