RACHEL HERCMAN, LCSW

Live Better. Love Better.

Vibrant relationships, personal fulfillment, and the capacity to be present make life feel meaningful. As a warm and open therapist, I bring my advanced training and experience in helping you feel better and more centered in the areas of your life that feel unsettled or stuck. Whether you’re facing a new beginning, a tough ending, or anything in between, therapy can provide a gentle place to figure out what you want and need for yourself and your relationships. My approach is that therapy should not just give awareness and clarity, but foster healing, resolution, and tools for more centered living.

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Specialties

DATING AND RELATIONSHIPS

SEXUAL FUNCTIONING AND SATISFACTION

VAGINISMUS AND UNCONSUMMATED RELATIONSHIPS

EMERGING ADULTHOOD

PREMARITAL COUNSELING

TRAUMA AND LOSS

FAMILY CONFLICT

COPING WITH ILLNESS

ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION

NAVIGATING LIFECYCLE TRANSITIONS

Services

Rachel’s Blog

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When Work Makes Sex More Work

When it comes to a person’s sex life, I find it important not just to look at sexual functioning but to zoom out and look at how sex fits into the conceptualization of who a person is and what their personality is like. Sex can be a space that’s both a departure from typical personality…

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Unstaged Grief

Since the beginning of time, grief has been part of the human experience. Living in a pandemic right now, the topic of grief is coming up more, in a way that is collective and cumulative. It’s collective in that we are facing losses together, a horizontal dynamic in that we dealing with this all at…

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Emotional Privilege

Privilege. It’s a special right or advantage that not everyone has. We have various examples of privilege around us. Over the years I’ve come to see that there’s something called Emotional Privilege. Emotional Privilege means that you have safe spaces and people in your life where you can be yourself and share your emotions and…

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Intimacy Is More Than Sex

When people hear the word ‘intimacy’, they often think of sex. ‘Intimacy’ and ‘sex’ are often used interchangeably but they don’t mean the same thing. This is more than just a semantics thing, and people don’t always see the nuance and difference between the two, and expect others to know what they are talking about…

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Numbness & Overwhelm: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Let’s talk about numbness and overwhelm being two sides of the same coin. We have been dealing with a pandemic, and as a New York City resident this has been a reality for us for the last two and a half months.  I have found in many conversations with people that this pandemic has created…

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Addiction: An Equal Opportunity Affliction

I recently read a powerful memoir about opioid addiction called, “As Needed For Pain: A Memoir of Addiction”, by Dan Peres. It was reflective, funny, and insightful, and leaves the reader with many lessons on addiction. Opioid addiction is often preceded by a prescription that is legal and medically-indicated. Perhaps the person had surgery or…

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The Perfectionism Freezer

I wish I could say that I haven’t written blogposts over the last few months because I was busy traveling to exotic destinations where I was too busy or didn’t have internet access. The truth is that I didn’t write because I had writer’s block. For me, writer’s block stems from a perfectionistic mindset in…

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The Megaphone of Oppression: Emotional Effects of Social Media

Before social media, you didn’t know for sure what your neighbors and friends thought. Not anymore. These days, we learn what those around us think and feel in public statuses and comments. And if you’re part of a minority– religion, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity– it can be downright scary seeing what people say with no…

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Rachel Hercman, LCSW

27 WEST 96TH STREET, NYC
CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR THE 1,2,3, B, & C TRAINS

646-494-8806[email protected]

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Rachel Hercman, LCSW

Psychotherapist. Relationship Consultant. Speaker 

Rachel is clinical psychotherapist with a decade of experience helping people cultivate better relationships with themselves and with others. 

Rachel attended City University of New York (CUNY) Queens College for undergraduate studies and then earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work at Wurzweiler School of Social Work in Manhattan. Since then, she has worked in mental health and medical environments, which has greatly enhanced her appreciation of the mind-body connection when it comes to feeling good both emotionally and physically.

Rachel has postgraduate advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing therapy (EMDR), somatic interventions, Internal Family Systems (IFS), sex therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and she completed an internship in Emotional Focused Therapy for couples at the Ackerman Institute in New York City.  She continues to attend trainings and conferences to learn up-to-date techniques to help her clients reach new levels of improvement. 

Rachel’s warm personality makes clients feel comfortable, cared for, and empowered in their journeys to better living.  She is easy to talk to, has a good sense of humor, and is known for her cool analogies on life. 

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