Rachel Vetter, LCSW
I’m a licensed clinical social worker based in New York, working with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, OCD, trauma, and relationship patterns that feel difficult to shift.
My clinical style is warm, engaged, and attuned to both emotional experience and deeper underlying patterns.
I pay attention not only to what is said, but to what is felt, avoided, repeated, or held back.
My Approach
I integrate:
Psychodynamic therapy (understanding patterns over time)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Trauma-informed care
Somatic awareness
Relational and attachment-based work
Gottman-informed couples therapy
Therapy with me is active, but not rushed.
We slow things down enough to understand them clearly—so that change becomes possible in a more sustainable way.
What I believe about therapy
I don’t see therapy as a place where someone is “fixed.”
I see it as a place where:
Patterns become understandable
Emotional experience becomes more tolerable
Insight becomes usable in real life
And new ways of relating to self and others become possible