About Rebecca
Dr. Rebecca Michel holds a doctorate in Counseling and brings 16 years of clinical experience to her work. She is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC).
She focuses on practical help for stress and anxiety and on building confidence for everyday life. Rebecca aims to make sessions straightforward and tools-driven. She helps people spot strengths they already have and use them to tackle problems.
Sessions often focus on clear steps rather than long theory talks.
Background and approach
Many conversations center on parenting stress, self-esteem, career obstacles, and workplace challenges. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. She listens for what matters most and then tailors steps a person can try between sessions.
That may include communication practice, setting small goals at work, or ways to reduce daily stress. She also supports people through life transitions such as pregnancy, midlife shifts, and caregiving strain. Rebecca’s background as a strengths-based coach informs her counseling.
She pairs that perspective with evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood and anxiety symptoms. This results-focused approach helps clients move toward clearer decisions and steadier moods. People who come to her can expect warm, direct conversations and practical tools to use outside sessions.
She works in English and accepts international clients. Appointments are scheduled to fit the client’s needs and goals.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Rebecca uses evidence-based techniques that focus on building strengths and managing symptoms in daily life. One approach centers on strengths-based coaching, which helps people identify personal assets and use those strengths to solve problems or stay motivated. Another approach focuses on interventions that reduce anxiety and improve mood through concrete strategies like breathing, behavioral tasks, and breaking large problems into smaller steps.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Rebecca partners with each person to decide which techniques match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process means techniques can change over time as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit help into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people share updates between meetings. These options give flexibility for different days and different tasks while maintaining a steady therapeutic plan.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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