About Rebecca
Rebecca Wagner is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 19 years of experience. She works with people facing anxiety and related concerns and aims to create a calm, practical space to talk through problems. Her style is straightforward and focused on real-world tools.
Rebecca uses short-term skills and longer-term strategies to help people feel steadier. She often teaches coping skills in the moment and supports clients as they try out new ways of handling stress.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with an emphasis on what helps day to day. Her work includes supporting people after trauma and helping with depression, self-esteem, and grief. She also helps those dealing with parenting and family stress, ADHD, panic attacks, anger, and relationship problems.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, sexual assault and abuse, and self-harm concerns. Rebecca draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral approaches, and dialectical behavior strategies. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when they fit a person's needs.
This mix allows her to tailor sessions to practical goals and emotional safety. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that values their expertise about their own life. Rebecca favors frequent, brief check-ins when useful and uses telehealth to offer flexible contact.
Her goal is to help clients build skills they can use between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and respecting the client's experience. The therapist follows the person's lead, helping them identify what matters most and offering practical suggestions to meet those goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, panic, and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills and can help when strong emotions or impulsivity get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rebecca will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time and checks in to see what is helping and what should change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, reminders, or brief skills coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to match therapy to a person's schedule and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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