About Rebecca
Rebecca Shaughnessy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Alabama who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She uses a straightforward, collaborative style so clients can take small, doable steps toward feeling better. Conversations tend to be practical and goal-directed, with an aim to build everyday coping skills.
Rebecca offers an integrative, client-centered approach. Sessions often start by listening to what matters most to the client and setting clear, short-term goals.
Background and approach
She draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral methods and solution-focused work to help people change unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Her practice also addresses trauma, grief, addictions, and mood disorders. Rebecca pays attention to issues like compassion fatigue, career stress, and relationship strains.
She supports people who are dealing with panic, OCD symptoms, or the emotional fallout of major life changes. In session she encourages practical experiments and honest conversation. Clients can expect a calm presence and guided problem-solving rather than long lectures.
Rebecca aims to help people notice small shifts that add up to real change. With five years of clinical experience, Rebecca combines person-focused listening with evidence-informed techniques. She offers multiple online formats so people can choose what fits their life.
If someone wants to try a different way of coping, she helps map a plan and track progress.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Rebecca often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related frustration. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with practical skills for everyday life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose what fits their goals and preferences, and adjusts methods as progress is tracked. This means trying small strategies, checking what helps, and keeping what works for each individual.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls need less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be good for brief check-ins or when a shorter touchpoint helps keep momentum. These formats give flexibility so people can focus on the work rather than logistics.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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