About Rebecca
Rebecca Zabinski is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 13 years of experience practicing in Minnesota. She offers a calm, approachable style and focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. Her sessions aim to make small, practical changes people can use each day.
Rebecca adapts her work to each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral methods and client-centered listening to help people name patterns and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how close relationships shape feelings and reactions. People come to her for many concerns, including anxiety, stress, depression, grief, sleep trouble, parenting strain, and difficulties after trauma or abuse. She also supports questions about identity, addictions, attention challenges, and coping with life changes.
Rebecca has experience helping people who have lived through foster care, adoption, chronic illness, and caregiving stress. Her sessions are warm and interactive. She prioritizes respect and compassion while offering concrete tools such as thought tracking, behavioral experiments, and mindfulness exercises.
Rebecca works with each client to set clear, manageable goals and checks progress along the way. For a parent reading this on a phone, Rebecca provides direct, practical support you can use between sessions. She encourages straightforward conversation and creates a plan that fits daily life.
If someone wants steady guidance while learning new ways to handle anxiety or stress, she will work alongside them to build skills and confidence.
How Rebecca’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current reactions and relationships. Online sessions can use that lens to identify patterns in close relationships and to practice new ways of relating during conversations and role-play exercises. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses short exercises to test new behaviors. CBT sessions often include tracking thoughts, practicing small behavioral experiments, and reviewing results together. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, and it can be paired with short home practices between sessions.Choosing an approach is a team process. Rebecca will talk with each client about their goals and preferences and recommend methods to try. The plan can change as progress is made, and she guides clients through adjustments to keep the work practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to consistent care. Video calls let people meet face to face when a longer discussion or teaching of skills is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text messaging suits quick check-ins, brief coaching, or supplemental support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum while working on anxiety, stress, or relationship patterns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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