- Trauma and abuse focus
- Practical skills and tools
- Collaborative care
About Gretchen
Gretchen Raring is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma and abuse. She brings a calm, practical style to sessions and focuses on what matters most to each person. Her work aims to clear away confusion and build doable skills for everyday life.
She has over two decades of experience across mental health, addiction services, homelessness support, incarceration settings, and work with veterans. Gretchen earned a Master of Social Work from Temple University. She has supported teens, adults, older adults, and couples in a range of clinical and community settings.
Gretchen centers the therapy relationship on acceptance and collaboration. She combines warmth with direct skills training so conversations lead to concrete changes. Sessions can include exploring emotions and attachment patterns, practicing mindfulness, and learning cognitive-behavioral strategies for managing thoughts and behavior.
Her approach is flexible and tailored. She pays attention to a person’s strengths and daily realities while helping them set manageable goals. That practical focus is useful for people navigating life transitions, caregiver stress, grief, addiction, or chronic illness.
Gretchen works from New Jersey and uses an individualized process to decide which methods fit best. She speaks English and holds MA LICSW and ND LCSW credentials. If you want to learn how she might help, a short intake questionnaire starts the process.
She has over two decades of experience across mental health, addiction services, homelessness support, incarceration settings, and work with veterans. Gretchen earned a Master of Social Work from Temple University. She has supported teens, adults, older adults, and couples in a range of clinical and community settings.
Gretchen centers the therapy relationship on acceptance and collaboration. She combines warmth with direct skills training so conversations lead to concrete changes. Sessions can include exploring emotions and attachment patterns, practicing mindfulness, and learning cognitive-behavioral strategies for managing thoughts and behavior.
Her approach is flexible and tailored. She pays attention to a person’s strengths and daily realities while helping them set manageable goals. That practical focus is useful for people navigating life transitions, caregiver stress, grief, addiction, or chronic illness.
Gretchen works from New Jersey and uses an individualized process to decide which methods fit best. She speaks English and holds MA LICSW and ND LCSW credentials. If you want to learn how she might help, a short intake questionnaire starts the process.
How her approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when emotions are difficult. It helps people who struggle with avoidance, worry, or feeling stuck to build a meaningful life aligned with what matters to them.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotions. It can help people understand patterns in close relationships and learn new ways of relating that feel safer and more fulfilling.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. It is practical and skill-oriented, useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Gretchen works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so sessions remain useful and relevant.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, reduce travel time, and let people work with a licensed professional from a distance. Those practical benefits often help people maintain consistency and apply skills between sessions.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she address?
She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, addiction, and related issues.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative, blending warmth with practical strategies to help people make changes that fit their lives.
How much experience does she bring?
She has 24 years of clinical experience across mental health, addiction, homelessness, incarceration, and veteran settings.
What credentials and region apply to her practice?
She holds MA LICSW and ND LCSW credentials and practices from New Jersey.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.