Rachael Okun

Rachael Okun, MD, LCSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland who supports people as they work to break unhelpful patterns and move through challenging seasons of life. Her work commonly centers on grief and loss, stress, anxiety, and depression, with an emphasis on helping clients feel understood while building steadier day-to-day coping and direction.

She also works with couples who want to reduce conflict, shift entrenched dynamics, and strengthen their relationship as a more unified team. Rachael brings experience across a wide range of life circumstances, including end-of-life concerns, palliative care, family services, and couples counseling, and she has spent many years as a hospice and palliative care social worker supporting individuals and families through major transitions.

In addition, she has experience with aging-related concerns and the child welfare system. Before entering the helping professions, she worked in project management, and she continues to value practical collaboration and solution-focused teamwork in the therapy process.

Rachael believes therapy can hold space for hard conversations while also creating room for relief, joy, and forward movement. She approaches each person with the view that what brings someone to therapy is only one part of who they are, and she looks forward to learning each client’s full story.