About Rebecca
Rebecca Poladian is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with 20 years of experience in mental health. She offers a steady, practical presence for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Rebecca emphasizes listening first and tailoring care to each person’s needs.
Over two decades she has supported people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, career setbacks, addiction concerns, and grief. She also addresses concerns such as sleep problems, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, and ADHD.
How Rebecca works
Her additional focus areas include aging and geriatric issues, blended family concerns, body image, cancer-related adjustment, caregiver stress, and fertility-related distress. Rebecca uses a range of approaches to meet different needs. She draws on client-centered work to build a trusting, collaborative relationship.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Emotionally-focused ideas help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships, and motivational interviewing supports commitment to change. Her style is practical and respectful.
Sessions tend to emphasize clear goals, small steps, and skills people can use between meetings. Rebecca treats each person as the expert in their own life while offering guidance and tools based on experience. People who choose her often want a calm, experienced clinician who combines listening with straightforward strategies.
She welcomes conversations about what will help most and adjusts her plan as goals evolve.
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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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How Rebecca’s Approaches Work Online
Rebecca often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to make online sessions practical and focused. Client-centered therapy centers the conversation on the person’s priorities, helping build rapport and clarify goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and patterns, which can be practiced between sessions and reviewed online.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rebecca will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins, shorter appointments, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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