About Rebecca
Rebecca Preston is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She has eight years of clinical experience focused largely on helping people facing addiction and the emotional fallout that often follows. She works in a warm, empathetic style and aims to make therapy feel approachable rather than overwhelming.
Rebecca’s practice also addresses trauma and attachment wounds, mood concerns such as anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder, and a range of personality and stress-related issues.
How Rebecca works
She often sees people with complicated histories, including intergenerational trauma and childhood attachment struggles. She pays attention to how emotional pain shows up in relationships, self-worth, sleep, and day-to-day coping. Her methods emphasize mindfulness and a client-centered stance.
Sessions focus on building self-compassion, practical coping skills, and clearer thinking about difficult choices. Rebecca mixes hands-on tools with calm, reflective conversation so change feels manageable. Rebecca also brings experience working with people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, ADHD, grief, and issues like abandonment or codependency.
She aims to help people build steadier routines, healthier boundaries, and better communication with others. Her tone is honest, lightly playful, and supportive. People who prefer a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist may find her approach a good fit.
She prioritizes empathy and steady progress, helping clients move from survival toward more intentional living.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Rebecca’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of connecting. Online sessions use talk and reflection to notice attachment patterns and practice new responses to triggers, which can help with relationship concerns and abandonment issues.Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience front and center. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s pace, helping people feel heard and understood while they sort through stress, grief, or identity concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Online CBT sessions break things into small steps and offer practical exercises for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and addictive patterns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rebecca will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use the format that feels most helpful.
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