About Reba
Reba Parla is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage anxiety and stress. She keeps sessions warm and interactive. She highlights a person's past successes to build confidence and momentum.
Her style includes simple, teachable tools. She guides breathing exercises and grounding techniques during sessions. She also uses affirmation practices to help shift negative self-talk.
Reba often draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
She pairs that with a strengths-based approach that names what already works. Together these approaches are aimed at producing steady, lasting change. She checks in regularly to make sure the session is meeting each person's needs.
Reba favors short, concrete steps clients can practice between sessions. She also adapts exercises to fit a person’s daily routine. With five years of experience, she works with a wide range of concerns including anger, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and seasonal mood shifts.
Her practice is based in Maine and sessions are offered in English.
How evidence-based techniques translate into online care
Reba commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on clear steps you can practice between sessions, and it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.She also emphasizes a strengths-based approach, which highlights existing skills and successes. This approach is about naming what already works and building on it to tackle hard moments like mood dips or anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Reba collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs and goals. She checks in regularly and adjusts tools so they make sense for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is low, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections or between-session updates. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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