Rochelle Nakoa
Practical, person-centered care for complex life challenges
LCSW Missouri
- Experience
- 13 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Rochelle
Rochelle Nakoa is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Missouri. She draws on 13 years of practice to help people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and person-focused, with an emphasis on practical steps people can use between sessions. Rochelle listens first and helps clients name what matters most.
She encourages writing and simple exercises to sort thoughts and emotions. Sessions aim to reduce shame and build clearer choices for daily living.
Her background includes supporting people through grief, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and major life transitions. She has worked in hospice care and with veterans, and has experience addressing sexual trauma and intimate partner violence.
Those roles shaped a calm, direct approach to safety and recovery. Rochelle combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral and attachment-based approaches.
She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, test new ways of relating, and practice small behavioral shifts. She also uses elements of the Gottman Method for relationship concerns when relevant.
Clients can expect a collaborative plan with concrete goals. Rochelle offers a balance of talk and action so progress shows in real life.
Her work is meant to be human, respectful, and suited to each person's pace.
How Rochelle blends approaches for online care
Rochelle uses client-centered therapy to build a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship where the client sets the pace and agenda. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people recognize their own goals and strengths.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps when people struggle with trust, abandonment fears, or repeating painful relationship cycles. For practical skills, she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or disrupted sleep.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Rochelle collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their concerns, goals, and comfort level. She will adjust techniques over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and interactive exercises, phone calls can fit a shorter break in a busy day, and messaging or live chat can serve quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options help people fit therapy into real life and keep momentum between sessions.
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Experience
13+ years
Licensed in
Missouri
Languages
English