About Vanessa
Vanessa Rubin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. Vanessa aims to create a calm space where people can talk about what’s hard and start to feel more in control.
She uses straightforward, practical methods to build skills for managing strong emotions and difficult thoughts. Sessions emphasize learning tools for day-to-day coping, improving communication, and making decisions that match personal values.
How Vanessa works
Vanessa often blends structured techniques with a warm, listening presence. Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and career stress. She also addresses attachment and abandonment themes, co-occurring conditions, and the challenges tied to substance misuse and domestic violence.
These areas inform how she tailors each session. Vanessa draws on multiple approaches to meet different needs, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. She explains methods in simple terms and practices them alongside clients rather than lecturing.
People who prefer practical skills, steady support, and clear steps tend to find her style useful. Sessions are offered through several online formats to fit varied schedules. To begin, prospective clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
Vanessa lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Vanessa works with
The areas below are the ones Vanessa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful actions that fit those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, centers on identifying and expressing core emotions to improve connection and resolve painful experiences.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods feel most helpful based on goals and preferences. Sessions can combine elements from different approaches so treatment matches the issue and the person's pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a quieter environment is available. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, skills practice, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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