About Rebecca
Rebecca Murray is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 11 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also supports concerns like anger, low self-esteem, life changes, and workplace strain.
Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep people stuck. She also draws on trauma-focused methods and EMDR for people who have been through traumatic events.
How Rebecca works
Rebecca works with issues connected to family of origin, control struggles, domestic violence, and first responder stress. She helps people facing panic attacks, seasonal mood shifts, and midlife transitions. She brings practical tools for coping, and she coaches on life purpose and rebuilding after loss.
Sessions aim to be collaborative. Rebecca listens first, then offers steps that fit each person's needs. She focuses on clear skills - breathing and grounding, thought records, behavioral experiments, and guided trauma work when needed.
Clients can expect work that balances short-term goals and deeper processing. Rebecca uses plain language in sessions and checks in often about progress. People come away with concrete plans for managing symptoms and next steps for recovery.
Rebecca lists 4 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.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Rebecca commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that helps people spot and change thought and behavior patterns that worsen anxiety, depression, or panic. It focuses on practical exercises and homework to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is offered for people who have experienced trauma; it pairs guided memory processing with structured bilateral stimulation to reduce the emotional impact of traumatic memories.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their history, current needs, and goals, and then suggest an approach or combination of methods. That decision is made together and can change as progress is tracked.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that fit their life. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction similar to in-person visits. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short coaching-type exchanges, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options add flexibility for scheduling and maintaining consistent care.
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