About Rebecca
Rebecca Phelps-Smith is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem concerns. She works with adults facing career strain, grief, trauma, substance use, and problems with sleep or eating. Rebecca brings a calm, practical style to sessions and aims to make therapy feel useful from the start.
She has 15 years of experience across clinical and emergency settings in Massachusetts. That background includes crisis intervention and suicide risk assessment.
How Rebecca works
Those roles shaped her understanding of how high-stress work and repeated exposure to trauma affect daily life. Rebecca uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered and psychodynamic ideas to explore feelings and relationships.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness skills to help people change patterns that cause distress. Her work often focuses on people who carry compassion fatigue, first responder stress, or the long-term effects of trauma. She supports those managing bipolar disorder, panic attacks, OCD symptoms, and social anxiety.
Rebecca also helps people who want practical tools for coping with life changes and improving communication. Sessions are offered in English and are available through a range of online formats. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Rebecca lists 7 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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Rebecca often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems alive. That approach breaks worries into manageable steps and teaches skills to reduce anxiety, panic, and unhelpful routines.She also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. This approach helps people feel heard and clarifies personal goals before moving to skill-building or deeper exploration.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rebecca treats the choice of method as a conversation she has with each person. Together they decide what techniques to try based on symptoms, life demands, and personal preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter environment is easier to arrange. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when writing out thoughts feels most helpful.
These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and to use therapy around work, family, and daily routines.
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