About Rebecca
Rebecca Wiklanski is a licensed master of social work (LMSW) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and trauma. She helps clients build self-esteem and find ways to cope with life changes. Rebecca aims to create a warm, respectful space for each person she sees.
Her approach draws on a mix of therapies. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps toward meaningful change.
How Rebecca works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood. Rebecca also brings Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing into sessions when emotional processing and trauma work are needed. Rebecca has seven years of clinical experience in Michigan.
She works with concerns such as relationship strain, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and family conflict. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, fertility issues, mood and personality concerns, and panic symptoms. Sessions aim to be practical and down to earth.
Rebecca listens without judgment, helps people set clear goals, and offers tools to use between sessions. She adapts pace and techniques to fit each person’s situation. For people seeking an inclusive space, Rebecca welcomes diverse identities and perspectives.
She supports clients in developing stronger self-understanding, building coping skills, and moving toward the changes they want to make.
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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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic tools and online care
Rebecca blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy online to help people manage anxious thoughts and take meaningful action. CBT focuses on noticing thought patterns and testing them with small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like panic or low mood. ACT encourages clarifying what matters most and committing to value-driven steps, which can help with decision points and coping during life transitions.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to decide whether CBT, ACT, EFT, or trauma-focused tools like EMDR fit best for their goals. That process can include trying short experiments in session and adjusting focus based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls approximate an in-person visit for deeper conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports shorter, ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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