About Rebecca
Rebecca Sperber is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and depression. Rebecca aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can start making changes.
She uses a straightforward, person-centered style in sessions. Conversation is shaped around each person's needs and goals. Rebecca listens closely, then helps people try new ways of thinking and coping.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses the emotional patterns that lie behind relationship and attachment problems. She helps clients recognize how old habits affect current connections and offers practical steps to shift those patterns. For people struggling with addictive behaviors she uses motivational strategies and concrete tasks to build momentum toward healthier choices.
Rebecca also draws on cognitive-behavioral methods to address persistent worry and depression. She helps people break down unhelpful thoughts and practice small behavior changes that reduce symptoms over time. When emotional regulation is a concern, she incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense feelings.
Clients can expect a collaborative process. Rebecca checks in about what is working and adapts plans as needed. Her goal is to help people feel more capable, more connected, and more in charge of daily life.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current emotions and connections. It helps people understand patterns of closeness and distance and learn new ways to relate. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete techniques to reduce worry, low mood, and avoidant behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rebecca will discuss these methods with clients and decide together which fits best. She tailors the plan to the person's goals, pace, and day-to-day needs so therapy feels manageable and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps build connection. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat work well for people who prefer writing between meetings or need flexibility during a busy day. These options help clients fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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