Rachel Bernstein, M.F.C.C.

Rachel has Masters degrees in the fields of Education, and Counseling Psychology. She is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist.
Rachel has been working in the field of cult education and counseling for 10years. While still living in Los Angeles, she offered assistance on the phone to individuals affected by cults who called the Maynard Bernstein Resource Center on Cults (named after her father), then provided counseling and facilitated a former cult member support group in her capacity as the Coordinator of the Cult Clinic at Jewish Family Service. She was also asked to run a number FOCUS support groups in the Los Angeles area.

After moving to New York, Rachel became the full-time therapist at the Cult Hotline and Clinic of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. She works there in four different capacities: counseling individuals, couples, and families affected by cult involvement, facilitating an ever-growing family support group for those who have loved-ones in, or recently out of cults, coordinating the Speakers' Bureau and all community education, and answering the hotline calls which come in from all over the country.

Rachel has also spoken at, and moderated a panel for an American Family Foundation conference.