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- Hampton Roads and across Virginia
Rebecca has a passion for addressing the unique needs of individuals and young adults and specializes in working with individuals who struggle with depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders, as well as women’s issues, domestic violence and sexual assault, self-esteem, healthy relationships, attachment disorders, grief, trauma, chronic stress, and transitions.
Rebecca is interested in the way that past experiences, such as attachment issues, traumatic experiences, breaches of trust, and various types of abuse and mistreatment, affect the way that people function in relationships. She strongly believes that secure attachment and corrective relational experiences can provide a way forward for almost everybody, and she strives to focus on helping clients explore the experiences and emotions that underlie the damage, identify their own strengths, and utilize their unique abilities and inner resilience to live a more fulfilling life.
Rebecca received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 2009 and spent three years working in an inpatient psychiatric facility before returning to school to pursue further education. She obtained her master’s degree in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016 and became licensed in 2018.
She has worked in a variety of settings- including domestic violence and sexual assault response and shelter, intensive in-home, family case management, crisis intervention, and private practice outpatient counseling- and has experience working with children (aged three and above), adolescents, adults, and families.
Rebecca began her career with an interest in women’s issues, but through experience and recognition of the way that society suppresses the emotional expression of men, she has developed an interest in helping all people express their feelings and solve their problems. While Rebecca has enjoyed every aspect of her clinical career, she has focused on private practice outpatient therapy for the past eight years, and it is her true passion.
Rebecca believes that secure attachment and authentic human connection are at the core of healing, and that a strong, trusting therapeutic alliance will empower individuals to build healthy relationships within their own lives. It is her belief that the process of building trust and communicating needs, experiences, and feelings in a therapeutic alliance is very similar to the same process in a real-life relationship; therefore, the therapeutic relationship, if it is effective, can be a conduit for real life healing. Rebecca believes that while every person is different, most people are looking for the same things: sense of purpose, fulfilling relationships, confidence, and safety.
Rebecca uses a client-centered and strengths-based approach, providing active listening, warm acceptance, and unconditional positive regard, with a strong focus on building therapeutic rapport, which she believes is at the core of healing almost all problems. While Rebecca does believe that “a good fit” between client and clinician is an important factor of effective treatment, she also encourages clients to try a few sessions before deciding that treatment will be ineffective.
Rebecca uses a variety of interventions, including motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, trauma-focused therapy, interpersonal therapy, play therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, solution-focused therapy, and psychoeducation.
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