About Rebecca
Dr. Rebecca Wiersma is a licensed master social worker with a doctorate in philosophy focused on social work practice. She has 11 years of experience in mental health and helps people who are coping with anxiety, depression, mood changes, parenting stress, and other life challenges.
Her work welcomes practical, straightforward conversations about what is worrying you now. She prefers a client-centered style that adapts to each person’s needs. That means she listens first, then shapes the plan together.
Background and approach
Sessions may include skill-building, thinking patterns to try differently, and mindfulness practices to reduce tension. Her background includes work across emotional and behavioral concerns, attachment and parenting issues, grief, trauma, and mood disorders such as bipolar conditions. She draws on psychodynamic ideas to understand long-term patterns and on attachment-based thinking to look at important relationships.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is part of the toolbox she uses when people want concrete ways to change anxious or unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness exercises are offered when slowing down and noticing present-moment experience helps reduce stress. Dr.
Wiersma works with people in Michigan and offers sessions in English. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick the format that fits their life. She aims for clear, practical steps and a collaborative approach to get started.
Online therapy grounded in attachment and CBT
Dr. Wiersma often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how relationships shape emotions and behavior. This approach helps when people struggle with closeness, parenting questions, or repeated relationship patterns. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical steps to reduce anxiety and improve mood. She approaches treatment as a collaborative process. Together with each person she will consider goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work, and she adjusts methods as progress is made. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins or on-the-day support possible. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy family, work, or school schedules, while keeping focus on practical steps and emotional understanding.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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