Rochelle Fried, LCSW

Rochelle Fried, LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), brings more than 40 years of clinical experience to her therapeutic practice in California. Over a long and varied career she has worked with people of all ages facing a wide range of life challenges, helping them build practical skills for problem solving, resilience, and day-to-day coping. Her work emphasizes empowerment and collaboration as she supports clients through anxiety, stress, depression, and significant life transitions.

She has substantial experience in relationship and family work, offering couples therapy and family therapy that address communication patterns and the complex dynamics that shape interpersonal life. Earlier roles included work in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit and custody mediation within the family court system, where she supported families through highly charged and vulnerable moments. A notable chapter of her career was a 14-year tenure at the Jonathan Jaques Children’s Cancer Center, where she served as a therapist and later as assistant director of the Psychosocial and Behavioral Science program, supervising a team of psychosocial professionals and attending to the bio-psychosocial needs of patients and families.

Rochelle began a part-time private practice during her time at the cancer center and transitioned to full-time private practice in 1995. Her approach is client-centered and empathetic, guided by evidence-based therapeutic techniques and tailored to each person or family. She focuses on areas such as stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, depression, coping with life changes, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia. Rochelle aims to create a supportive environment where clients feel heard and can work collaboratively toward meaningful change.