Rochelle Lachance
Compassionate clinician with 40+ years experience
MD, LCSW-C Maryland
- Experience
- 41 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Rochelle
Rochelle Lachance brings four decades of clinical experience to work with people facing addictions, relationship and family challenges, parenting concerns, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, career shifts, depression, life transitions, and ADHD.
Background and approach
She also addresses hoarding, hospice and end-of-life counseling, infidelity and jealousy, obsessions and compulsions including OCD, and personality disorder-related concerns. Rochelle's practice emphasizes practical problem-solving alongside emotional understanding.
Trained and licensed as both a medical doctor and a clinical social worker - MD and LCSW-C - she has worked across hospitals, outpatient clinics, psychiatric and substance-use programs, special education settings, and in-home geriatric care. Her background includes specialized marriage and family therapy preparation, which informs her grasp of family dynamics and relational patterns.
Rochelle is known for attentive listening, empathy, and building trust while helping clients set and work toward clear goals. Clients can expect a blend of evidence-informed techniques and a person-centered stance that draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas and mindfulness alongside emotionally-focused and relationship-oriented methods.
Based in Maryland, she offers a long-established perspective on connecting clients with community resources and practical supports to reinforce therapeutic gains.
Integrating evidence-based approaches for online work
Rochelle draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thought and behavior patterns; this approach is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. She also employs Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes empathic listening and building a collaborative therapeutic relationship to support self-directed growth. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is another influence, useful for exploring attachment and emotional responses in relationships and improving emotional connection.Finding the right blend of methods is part of the therapeutic process, and she approaches this collaboratively, adjusting techniques based on each person’s goals, preferences, and evolving needs. Clients and therapist work together to determine which strategies feel most helpful, with an emphasis on practical skills and emotional understanding.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care, practice skills between sessions, and access therapy from the client’s preferred setting while preserving the same clinical approaches used in person.
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Experience
41+ years
Licensed
Maryland
Languages
English