About Rebecca
Rebecca Dykes is an LCSW with 20 years of experience in mental health in Florida. She also works in higher education as a college professor and department chair. Her background spans inpatient and outpatient care, forensic settings, and community development.
Rebecca draws on both clinical and faith-informed perspectives in her work. She often helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction. She also supports parents coping with parenting strain, people managing grief or career stress, and those dealing with anger or low self-esteem.
How Rebecca works
Rebecca has particular focus on ADHD, compassion fatigue, and first responder issues. Rebecca has worked with people who face attachment and sensory regulation challenges, emotional regulation and executive functioning struggles, and relationship concerns. Her background includes supporting adults affected by domestic violence and addiction, and assisting those navigating deployment and reintegration challenges.
She also helps pastors and ministry leaders who experience spiritual burnout. Her approach is direct but warm. She aims to meet people where they are and walk alongside them through difficult seasons.
Rebecca avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Rebecca uses methods that center the person and focus on practical change. She blends client-centered listening with strategies that target unhelpful thoughts, behaviors, and communication patterns.
She offers weekday and some weekend options, including phone and text sessions for added flexibility.
Rebecca lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Rebecca works with
The areas below are the ones Rebecca selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It aims to create a space where people feel heard and can set goals at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication when feelings run high.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up to determine which methods to try first. That plan can be adjusted over time as needs change, and decisions are made together in sessions.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and routines. Video sessions work well for longer conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short updates, scheduling, or quick coping reminders between sessions. These options can make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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