About Rebecca
Rebecca Montez is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 15 years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, and the emotional fallout from trauma and abuse. Her approach aims to make it easier to talk about what’s hard and to take small, practical steps forward.
She often supports people through low self-esteem, depression, panic attacks, and the challenges that follow major life changes.
Background and approach
She has particular experience with women's issues, including postpartum depression and pregnancy-related concerns. Rebecca also assists people dealing with separation, feelings of abandonment, guilt, or navigating cultural and multicultural challenges. In sessions she builds an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be named and examined.
Conversations are grounded and straightforward so clients can try new ways of responding to stress. She encourages realistic goals and action plans that feel doable between sessions. Rebecca uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's needs.
She pays attention to how past hurts affect present life and helps people slowly reclaim confidence and self-love. The work moves at a pace clients can manage, with choices about which issues to prioritize. People who reach out can expect calm listening, clear options, and practical steps for coping.
Rebecca recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the process understandable and steady from the first meeting.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Rebecca uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in plain, practical ways. One common approach focuses on learning to notice and manage anxious thoughts and bodily signals so panic and worry are less likely to escalate. This helps people facing panic attacks, social anxiety, or everyday stress. Another approach emphasizes working through traumatic memories and current triggers by pacing the work and building coping skills first - useful for sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, or past abuse. Each approach aims to teach skills people can use between sessions rather than only talking about problems.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, what has and hasn’t worked before, and preferences for how active or reflective the sessions should be. Together they try methods that fit the client’s needs and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when more nuance is helpful. Phone sessions are a good option when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter check-ins during a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, childcare, or medical appointments while still focusing on evidence-based work.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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