About Rebecca
Rebecca Chester is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship or family concerns. She works with clients to address life transitions, caregiver strain, and issues around self-esteem and purpose. Her approach is respectful and direct, with a focus on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Rebecca aims to make sessions feel like a calm place to sort through what matters most.
Background and approach
She listens first and then partners with each person to set clear goals. Conversations are tailored to the situation, so sessions can include problem-solving, skill practice, or space to process strong feelings. Her background includes eight years of professional experience as a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, in Georgia.
She has worked with people coping with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and chronic health challenges such as cancer and caregiving stress. Clinically she draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Those tools are used to reduce overwhelming thoughts, build coping skills, and help people reconnect with their values and strengths.
Rebecca frames therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people set manageable steps, check what’s working, and adjust plans as life changes. Her style is compassionate and practical, with attention to both immediate relief and longer-term goals.
How Rebecca’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and priorities. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify what matters most and what steps feel doable. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, life purpose questions, and emotional support during grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical exercises. It often includes short tasks between sessions to build new habits and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices that can ease stress and improve emotional regulation.
Rebecca treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their style, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients and therapist decide together which tools to keep using.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets people work face-to-face when a deeper conversation is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, flexible exchanges during busy days or between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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