About Rebecca
Rebecca Poladian is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 20 years in mental health work. She meets people where they are and treats therapy as a collaborative process. Her focus includes anxiety, stress, depression, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, and other life challenges.
Rebecca draws on straightforward, person-focused methods rather than one-size-fits-all plans. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps set concrete, achievable goals. Sessions often combine talking through issues, noticing unhelpful patterns, and trying small changes to test what works.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience with trauma-related concerns and a range of age groups. That history helps when someone faces grief, life transitions, caregiver strain, addiction concerns, or shifts in identity and intimacy. She also supports work on sleep, career choices, body image, and recovery from separation or divorce.
Rebecca uses a mix of approaches to match a person’s needs. Some sessions focus on skills to manage anxiety and difficult thoughts. Other times she helps people deepen emotional understanding and improve communication in close relationships.
She invites people who want practical help and a human connection. Rebecca emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and encourages patients to bring their questions and preferences into the process. If someone wants a thoughtful, experienced counselor to walk alongside them, she offers that steady presence.
How Rebecca blends proven approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful working relationship. The therapist follows the client’s lead, asks thoughtful questions, and helps the person identify their own goals and next steps. This style is useful for people who want a gentle, collaborative pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches straightforward skills to manage anxiety, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and improve daily routines like sleep. CBT is often used when someone wants practical tools and clear steps to try between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and respond to emotions in ways that improve close relationships and reduce distress. It can be helpful when relationship patterns or intimacy issues are a central concern.
Rebecca will work together with each person to find the best fit among these approaches. She asks about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past, then adjusts methods as therapy unfolds. That collaborative process guides which techniques are emphasized in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and fuller conversation, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping a steady course toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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