About Rebecca
Rebecca Waterston is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people who are overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Rebecca keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use between appointments.
She works with people who have experienced trauma, loss, or painful family histories. Many clients come for help with sleep problems, depressive symptoms that follow anxiety, or patterns learned in their early family life that cause trouble now.
Background and approach
Rebecca guides clients through understanding what they can change and how to build healthier habits. Relationship and communication struggles are common reasons people reach out. Rebecca looks at how early coping styles shape current interactions and helps people practice clearer, gentler ways of relating.
She also supports those recovering from addiction and the family members affected, teaching ways to reduce fear and feel less trapped by a loved one’s substance use. Her approach blends practical tools and reflective work. Rebecca uses methods that help change unhelpful thinking, strengthen emotional connection, and build values-based action.
Sessions aim to increase confidence, improve decision making, and create more constructive responses to stress. Rebecca pays attention to different life stages, including young adults facing social media pressures and older adults facing grief and end-of-life concerns. She encourages steady progress, with small changes adding up to clearer thinking and stronger self-respect.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thought patterns and building practical skills for better sleep, mood, and coping. It works well for anxiety, depression, and reworking negative self-talk. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on emotions and attachment needs, helping people improve communication and repair strained relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rebecca will listen to a person’s goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. She adjusts what she uses based on what is helping, and she involves clients in choosing next steps so therapy stays collaborative.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals through several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or caregiving, allow shorter or more frequent touchpoints, and let people pick the mode that helps them engage most effectively.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English