About Rebecca
Rebecca Shaughnessy is a licensed professional counselor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She approaches sessions with a calm, collaborative style and focuses on small, practical steps people can take right away. Rebecca aims to help clients find inner strength and clearer ways to cope when old strategies stop working.
Her work is grounded in client-centered care. That means sessions begin with listening closely to what matters most to the individual and shaping goals from there.
Background and approach
She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and solution-focused work to build skills for managing symptoms and solving immediate problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is part of her toolkit, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. Rebecca also emphasizes a straightforward, problem-solving stance when needed, helping clients break down bigger concerns into manageable steps.
The focus is on practical change rather than lengthy theory. Sessions tend to be collaborative. Clients can expect to talk through situations, try specific strategies between sessions, and adjust the plan as progress is seen.
Rebecca highlights that even one small step can start a positive shift. She has five years of clinical experience as an LPC and practices in Alabama. Rebecca works with a wide range of concerns including trauma, grief, addiction, ADHD, relationship strain, parenting stress, career issues, compassion fatigue, and mood disorders.
How Rebecca Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when avoiding feelings gets in the way of life goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence, which helps reduce panic, obsessive thinking, and mood symptoms. Solution-Focused Therapy highlights immediate strengths and sets short-term goals to create quick, practical changes for pressing problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rebecca collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their needs and goals. She adjusts techniques as progress is made so therapy stays relevant to what the person wants to accomplish.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and preferences. Video is helpful when visual cues aid the conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for brief check-ins or skill practice between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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