About Rochelle
Rochelle Nakoa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Missouri who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship struggles, and ADHD. She speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Rochelle draws on years of experience supporting adults through grief, caregiving stress, and big life changes.
Rochelle takes a client-centered approach that puts the person's goals first. She listens closely and helps clients name their feelings and priorities.
Background and approach
Sessions often include writing exercises and structured conversations to bring clarity and reduce overwhelm. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape present behavior. That can be useful for addressing intimacy issues, commitment concerns, and patterns that repeat in relationships.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when people want concrete strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Rochelle has worked in hospice, with military populations, and in corrections, where she provided individual and group therapy. Those roles informed her work with sexual trauma and intimate partner violence, and with people facing chronic medical or caregiving challenges.
People can expect a calm, direct style that balances listening with clear steps forward. Rochelle supports coping skills, communication work, and planning for life changes. Her practice aims to help clients move from feeling stuck to taking practical action toward their goals.
How approach and access come together online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps when intimacy, trust, or repeating relationship problems are at the center of your concerns. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and values. Sessions emphasize listening, reflection, and exercises that help you name what matters and decide the next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives concrete tools to shift thinking and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many stress-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rochelle will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together you can try strategies, track what works, and adjust the plan so it fits your life and aims.
Online sessions can make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth or camera time is difficult. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, shorter reflections between sessions, or a way to journal with a therapist's responses. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or busy days while still using the chosen therapeutic approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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