About Rebecca
Rebecca Preston is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with eight years of clinical experience. She works mainly with people facing substance use and the emotional and relationship problems that often come with it. Rebecca also helps people struggling with mood disorders like anxiety, depression, and bipolar conditions, along with trauma and attachment wounds.
Her style is warm, empathetic, and occasionally playful. Sessions aim to be straightforward and human.
Background and approach
She encourages clients to treat themselves with more kindness while learning concrete tools to manage stress, sleep, and overwhelming emotions. Rebecca uses mindfulness-based methods alongside client-centered and attachment-informed ideas. That means she pays attention to the present moment, follows each person's lead, and notices how early relationships shape current patterns.
Practical skills from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused work are mixed in when useful. She often helps people who struggle with anger, grief, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. Rebecca also supports individuals dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, autism or Asperger syndrome, and co-occurring medical or mental health concerns.
Her sessions are intended to feel collaborative. Rebecca works to identify small, manageable steps clients can try between meetings. She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes and stays focused on what the person wants to change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Rebecca blends client-centered therapy with mindfulness and cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the person's pace, which helps build trust and clarify goals. Mindfulness work teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and improve sleep. Cognitive behavioral methods look at unhelpful thoughts and habits and teach concrete skills to change them.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Rebecca will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful, combining elements as needs and goals evolve. The plan can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins, coping tools, or between-session support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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