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Rachel Fisher

Meet Rachel Fisher

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Rachel Fisher is a licensed clinician with over a decade of postgraduate experience specializing in anxiety, panic disorders, depression, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, life transitions,  postpartum issues, and grief and loss. Rachel employs a two-pronged approach, assisting clients in reducing symptoms while inviting them to discover their symptoms’ more profound meaning and cultivate long-term change and transformation.

Rachel earned clinical degrees from the University of Rochester and Roberts Wesleyan University. She has received specialized training and experience treating eating disorders in a variety of settings, including inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient care. She also has extensive experience working with parents whose children have eating disorders and mood disorders. Rachel’s professional experience also includes working with children and adults in individual and group settings, supervising and training other clinicians, and collaborating with multidisciplinary research teams. Rachel has received advanced training in exposure and response prevention, CBT, DBT, and psychodynamic spiritually integrated psychotherapy. Rachel draws on the wisdom of various therapeutic modalities, techniques, and traditions, guided by each client’s specific needs, preferences, personality, and goals. She strives to create a warm, safe, customized, and interactive environment where clients can be supported and challenged throughout their process.

Rachel considers therapy a collaborative journey into a liminal space that can lead to symptom relief, deeper growth, and self-awareness. Sessions aim to foster a more authentic connection with oneself and others, better alignment of the body, heart, and mind, increased clarity and balance, and a renewed sense of the client’s own inner strength, compassion, and self-worth. Through this process, clients frequently achieve greater congruence between their inner and outer worlds and a more embodied sense of meaning and purpose. Rachel encourages clients to confront their fears, disappointments, resistances, conflicts, self-doubt, unfulfilled lives, hidden dreams, and forgotten strengths. During the process, clients may discover how both great love and great suffering can help them transform. Clients are encouraged to work at their own pace to discover their light and shadow, their conscious and unconscious, their internal critics and authentic selves, and the inner depths of their outer worlds. This journey towards long-term change can be both challenging and rewarding.

Rachel values growth-fostering relationships as essential elements of change both inside and outside of the therapy room. She considers it a privilege to be a part of her clients’ lives. Rachel lives in New York with her husband and two daughters.

Presentations

Zarcone, J., Michels, J., Simeone, R., Bumpus, S., Tivarus, M., Pilato, M., & McAnarney, E. (2014). Neural Correlates of Task Switching and Set Shifting in Adolescents with Restrictive Anorexia Nervosa. Journal of Adolescent Health.

McAnarney, E., Simeone, R., Michels, J., (June 15, 2012) Neural Correlates of Task Switching and Set Shifting in Adolescents with Restrictive Anorexia Nervosa. Oral and poster presentations to be given at University of Rochester Medical Center Pediatric Biomedical Research Conference, Rochester, NY

Kreipe, R., Starr, T., & Simeone, R. (2012). Chapter 24 Eating disorders. Sahler, O.J. & Carr, J. (Eds.), The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care (pp. 195-201).

Simeone, R. (April 23, 2010) An Investigation of Parental Effects of Eating Disorders and Caregiver Needs in Relation to Family-Based Therapy. Oral presentation given at the University of Rochester Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rochester, New York.

Professional Memberships

American Psychological Association (APA)
New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA)
National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)

Licenses

License: State of New York (#088497)

Affiliations