About Rebecca
Rebecca Poladian is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with over 20 years in mental health. She brings steady experience to conversations about anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions. Rebecca speaks plainly and listens closely to understand each person’s immediate concerns.
She frames therapy as a partnership. Sessions focus on practical steps and on understanding what motivates change. Rebecca encourages people to name small goals and try manageable strategies between meetings.
Background and approach
Rebecca uses a mix of approaches depending on what a person needs. She draws on client-centered methods to prioritize the person's perspective, cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thinking, and emotionally-focused ideas when relationships and connection are central. She also integrates motivational interviewing and psychodynamic thinking when those tools fit a situation.
Her work covers many common life struggles: coping with grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, career concerns, addictions, sleep problems, and questions about identity and self-esteem. She also supports people facing blended family challenges, caregiver strain, cancer-related stress, and aging or geriatric concerns. Sessions aim to be practical and humane.
Rebecca helps people build clearer communication, stronger coping skills, and better routines. Her goal is to empower clients to handle day-to-day challenges and to make steady progress toward their priorities.
How Rebecca’s Approaches Work Online
Rebecca uses client-centered techniques that prioritize the person's perspective and goals, helping people feel heard and respected while they name what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and day-to-day stress.The right approach is decided together. Rebecca will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. That collaborative conversation guides whether sessions lean more toward skills-based CBT, emotionally-focused work around relationships, or other methods.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit a commute or work break and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, between-session support, or for people who prefer not to use video. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity across changes in schedule or location.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English