About Rebecca
Dr. Rebecca Thompson is a California clinical psychologist with 25 years of experience. She draws on her neuropsychology background to make sense of how thinking, feeling, and behavior connect.
Her style is practical and down-to-earth. She speaks plainly and focuses on steps people can try between sessions. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD by breaking problems into smaller parts.
She also supports those facing trauma, grief, sleep problems, anger, and challenges at work or school.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and issues common to first responders. Her sessions typically focus on identifying patterns, testing new ways of thinking, and building daily skills that reduce distress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to link thoughts and behaviors to feelings and outcomes.
For trauma-related concerns she uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people process upsetting events at a manageable pace. Dr. Thompson takes a collaborative approach.
She listens first, then helps set clear, realistic goals. She asks clients to try specific skills and reports back on what worked and what didn’t. This practical loop guides the work forward.
She works with young adults and adults on career, relationships, self-esteem, and life purpose questions. Sessions also address isolation, panic attacks, social anxiety, and compassion fatigue. People who choose her often want evidence-informed methods with an experienced clinician.
Dr. Thompson holds CA Psychologist 20610 and practices from California. She offers services in English and accepts clients from other countries when appropriate.
Her pace is steady, respectful, and oriented toward usable change.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches concrete skills such as managing worry, changing unhelpful thinking, and building routines that improve sleep and attention. This approach is commonly used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and work or school stress.Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on processing distressing events in a paced way. It helps people reduce the hold traumatic memories have on daily life and build coping strategies to manage strong emotions. This work is often paired with practical skills so clients feel steadier between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is tracked. The client’s feedback helps shape the focus and pace of treatment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter option is needed. Chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, skill coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible for work, school, and busy daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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