About Vanessa
Vanessa Rubin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She has seven years of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. She writes and speaks plainly to make starting therapy feel less overwhelming.
She focuses on helping people build self-understanding and stronger communication. Sessions often center on practical skills to manage emotions and day-to-day challenges. Vanessa pays attention to how life roles, work, and caregiving demands affect wellbeing.
Background and approach
Vanessa uses methods that encourage mindful awareness and workable behavior changes. In conversation she helps people notice patterns, test new ways of responding, and practice small changes between sessions. She offers a calm, steady presence and aims to make therapy feel collaborative rather than directive.
Parents reading on a phone will find short, clear explanations and step-by-step suggestions. She also addresses relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, and intimacy-related struggles. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is listed among her focus areas and she brings that topic into sessions when relevant.
Vanessa also works with people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, and caregiver stress. Her style is practical: identify a problem, try an approach, and adjust based on results. That way clients leave with tools they can use right away.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then clarify values and take small actions that match those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to change how someone feels; it often helps with depression, anxiety, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotional patterns in relationships and shifting how people connect and respond to one another, which can help with intimacy and communication issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences and will suggest or blend approaches accordingly. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what the person actually wants to change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and scheduling permit. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates or ask brief questions between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while still accessing licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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