About Rebecca
Rebecca Carrigan is a licensed social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and major life changes. She works with those dealing with family conflict and offers practical support for everyday struggles. Rebecca writes simply and listens closely to understand each person's situation.
She holds a Master of Arts and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Massachusetts with ten years of professional experience. Her practice emphasizes collaboration - she views clients as experts on their own lives and builds on their strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and concrete steps rather than long lectures. Rebecca often addresses issues that come with adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and caregiver strain. She also supports people facing body image worries, eating and food-related problems, and relationship communication difficulties.
Her work includes helping those navigating divorce, separation, and the emotional aftermath of trauma and abuse. In sessions she pays attention to mood symptoms, dissociation, and complex reactions to loss or change. She helps people manage guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
For practical needs such as pregnancy and childbirth or parenting stress, she offers problem-solving and coping strategies. Her style is steady and down-to-earth. She helps people set small, achievable goals and practices tools they can use between sessions.
Rebecca aims to make therapy feel like a partnership where progress comes from skills, insight, and steady effort.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Rebecca uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom management. One common approach helps people notice patterns in thinking and behavior, then practice different responses to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method is useful for those struggling with worry, depression, or stress.Another approach she uses emphasizes building coping skills and managing intense emotions after trauma or during major life transitions. It focuses on grounding, pacing steps forward, and strengthening everyday routines to reduce overwhelm and improve functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust tactics as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people meet face-to-face; phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited; chat or messaging can fit a short check-in or a busy schedule. These options help people connect from different settings and maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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