About Rebecca
Rebecca Hoye offers practical, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. She writes in a direct way and focuses on clear skills people can use between sessions. Rebecca makes space for honest conversation about what is and isn’t working in daily life.
She has five years of experience as a psychotherapist and holds an IL LCPC. Much of her work was in community mental health in Chicago, helping people with limited resources manage multiple pressures at once.
Background and approach
That background shaped her focus on realistic, usable strategies rather than abstract ideas. Rebecca uses a psycho-educational approach that helps people recognize unhelpful patterns. She explains how behaviors function, teaches coping skills, and practices those skills in session so people can use them in real situations.
Sessions aim to build practical tools and greater day-to-day control over stress responses. She pays close attention to how symptoms, environment, and life demands interact. That means looking at parenting stress, relationship strain, work pressures, attention challenges, or trauma history together rather than in isolation.
The goal is to find steps that fit each person’s situation and energy level. Rebecca prefers an empathic, collaborative style. She listens first, then offers explanations and straightforward techniques people can try.
She welcomes conversations about next steps and keeps the focus on usable change.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Rebecca draws on evidence-based techniques that teach skills and explain why patterns repeat. One core approach is psycho-education - Rebecca explains how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact and shows how small changes can alter those patterns. This helps with anxiety, depression, and managing mood swings by making reactions easier to understand and manage.She also focuses on skill-building around coping strategies. That involves learning concrete tools for stress reduction, anger management, and attention challenges, then practicing those skills in session so people can use them in daily life. These tools can support parenting demands, career stress, and recovery from trauma by offering clear actions to try.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Rebecca works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She listens first, suggests approaches, and adjusts the plan as progress and feedback guide the work.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation; phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited; live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or complete a shorter check-in during a break. This range of formats helps people access consistent care without rearranging their whole week.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English