Rachel Lippin-Foster (she/her)

Rachel Lippin-Foster is a licensed clinical social worker and a native New Yorker. Rachel provides weekly and intensive individual therapy to clients across the lifespan, as well as parent work. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE). She has extensive training in applying these approaches at multiple levels of care and specializes in treating anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). As someone with celiac disease, Rachel also has a subspecialty in working with people who have gastrointestinal disorders.

Before starting her private practice, Rachel was Coordinator of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Related Disorders Program (CAARD) at Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants (CBC). There, she provided individual, parenting, and group therapy to children, adolescents, and families struggling with anxiety, OCD, ARFID, and mood disorders. She also organized and led CBC’s annual four-day Intensive Adolescent OCD Program.

Before CBC, Rachel provided individual and family therapy to children and adolescents in the Child Outpatient Psychiatry Department and the Eating Disorder Program at Montefiore Medical Center. She also worked with adolescents and adults in the partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs at Monte Nido.

Rachel is an active member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF), and the NYC-CBT Association. She is co-chair of the ADAA Child and Adolescent Special Interest Group (SIG) and serves on the planning committee for the 2027 ADAA Conference. She received the ADAA Emerging Leader Award in 2024 and was selected for the Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program in 2022.

Training Clinical Internship, Children’s Day Unit, New York State Psychiatric Institute Clinical Internship, Pathway 2 Leadership

Education MSW, New York University Silver School of Social Work BA, Psychology and Spanish, Bates College