About Rebecca
Rebecca Wagner is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 19 years of experience based in New York. She creates a calm space where parents and individuals can talk through stress, ADHD concerns, anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. Her approach is direct and practical, focused on helping people manage day-to-day challenges and make steady changes.
Rebecca uses straightforward tools from client-centered work to help clients set goals that fit their lives.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to spot and change unhelpful thinking. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for emotion regulation and coping with intense feelings. In sessions she prioritizes brief check-ins and real-time skills teaching when those moments come up.
That can mean practicing grounding techniques, planning small behavior changes, or rehearsing a conversation a client finds hard. She frames counseling as a partnership where the client’s priorities guide each step. Her background includes long-term work with trauma, sexual assault and abuse, post-traumatic stress, and self-harm concerns.
She also has experience supporting people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, impulsivity, panic attacks, and communication or family problems. Rebecca works with people facing parenting and co-parenting questions, relationship stress, bipolar mood challenges, and the transition points in life that create big strain.
Sessions are offered in English and are available via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Rebecca blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to focus on what matters most to each person. Client-centered therapy means the therapist follows the client’s lead and builds sessions around their priorities and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and then practices new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and crisis coping when strong feelings arise. DBT techniques teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions, handling conflict, and tolerating distress without acting on impulses. Together these approaches support practical change and stronger day-to-day coping skills.
Finding the right combination of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to try strategies, notice what helps, and adjust the plan based on goals and preferences. Clients often mix brief skills coaching with deeper problem-solving to find a good balance.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access through multiple formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations, phone sessions can fit into a short break, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or practicing short coping steps. These options aim to make care flexible, consistent, and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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