About Rebecca
Rebecca Shaughnessy is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and struggles with mood and focus. She writes simply and listens closely to what matters to each person. Her approach centers on practical steps and small changes that add up over time.
Rebecca uses a blend of client-centered work and structured techniques to meet people where they are. Sessions focus on clear goals, learning new ways to handle symptoms, and building on strengths.
Background and approach
She invites collaboration so clients feel part of the plan instead of handed a set of instructions. Her work often includes tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and solution-focused methods. That means identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying different responses, and testing what works between sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are used when helping people settle difficult feelings while still moving toward what matters to them. Rebecca has five years of counseling experience and holds the LPC credential, with licensure in Alabama noted in her profile. She offers talk-based sessions and practical strategies tailored to each person’s daily life and routines.
People commonly address relationship strain, parenting stress, addiction concerns, career pressure, and compassion fatigue in sessions. Rebecca also supports those coping with abandonment, attachment concerns, OCD or panic symptoms, and challenges tied to aging or military service. Her style is steady, straightforward, and focused on usable change.
How Rebecca’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking small steps toward values-based goals. This approach can help with persistent worry, low mood, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical strategies to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, panic, OCD, and depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rebecca will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaboration makes it easier to adjust techniques over time if something isn’t helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging helps people stay connected between meetings. These options make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit into busy days.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Virginia
- Languages
- English