About Rebecca
Rebecca Hathorn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. She speaks plainly and listens closely to help people sort through difficult feelings. Rebecca aims to be a practical, down-to-earth therapist who offers steady support and clear suggestions.
Rebecca brings 17 years of clinical experience to her work as an LCSW. She has long experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and blended family challenges.
Background and approach
Her background includes helping people manage grief, life changes, career stress, and relationship conflicts. Her approach centers on the relationship with the person in front of her. Rebecca uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client and offer concrete reflections.
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with manageable actions. Sessions can include motivational interviewing to support change, narrative therapy to reframe life stories, and solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals. Rebecca is comfortable working on issues such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, codependency, and midlife shifts.
She pays attention to how identity, including LGBT concerns, shapes stress and coping. Rebecca offers therapy through messaging and live chat as part of an online subscription model. People who choose her begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions based on her availability.
She aims to respond to messages regularly and to help clients move toward clearer choices and steadier emotions.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Rebecca commonly blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Client-centered work means she follows the client's concerns, listens closely, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and a space to talk through feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and offers simple tools to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress that interferes with daily life.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who are unsure about change. That method focuses on drawing out a person’s reasons for change and boosting motivation in small steps. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Rebecca will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which gives flexibility for different needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversations when face-to-face interaction matters. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, and steady contact between longer sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care while juggling work, family, or school schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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