About Rebecca
Rebecca Hayes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming. Rebecca offers steady support while people work through change and painful past events.
She uses practical conversation and collaborative planning to tailor each session. That means listening first, then building steps that match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on small, doable changes rather than big promises. Rebecca has seven years of professional experience in counseling. During that time she has helped people dealing with trauma and abuse, panic and mood concerns, and struggles with isolation or compulsive behaviors.
She also addresses issues tied to relationships like attachment and communication problems, and life transitions such as divorce and caregiving stress. Sessions commonly include talking through painful memories, learning tools to calm panic or anxiety, and practicing ways to rebuild confidence after setbacks. Rebecca pays attention to how guilt, shame, or control issues affect daily choices and relationships.
Her aim is to help people find clearer direction and manageable next steps. Her approach is respectful and compassionate. She works with each person to shape a plan that fits their rhythm and goals.
Rebecca supports practical progress while honoring each person’s experience.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Rebecca draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical tools and emotional processing. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for anxiety and panic - learning breathing and grounding exercises, and practicing steps to reduce avoidant responses. This helps people manage sudden anxiety and regain control over daily routines.Another useful focus is trauma-informed processing. This involves paced talking through difficult memories, identifying triggers, and developing coping strategies to reduce overwhelming reactions. It can be helpful for people recovering from abuse or past hurt who want to feel safer in their day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rebecca collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and the challenges they bring. She adjusts plans over time and checks in to make sure techniques are helping in real life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and teaching exercises, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text can fit into busy days or provide quick check-ins. These formats let people access regular support without traveling and make it easier to keep therapy consistent.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English