About Rebecca
Rebecca Davis is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She has nine years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem concerns.
Background and approach
Rebecca uses clear, practical steps to help clients feel steadier day to day. She listens closely and works at a calm pace that many find easy to follow.
Rebecca focuses on building stronger communication and coping skills. She helps people manage symptoms and handle painful memories without feeling overwhelmed.
Sessions can include learning simple tools for anxiety or experimenting with new ways to set boundaries and express needs. Her work also addresses complicated background issues like family of origin concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and attachment struggles.
Rebecca supports people dealing with grief, chronic illness, substance problems, or the long shadow of past abuse. She offers straightforward strategies for emotion regulation and problem solving.
Mindfulness practices and thought-focused techniques are part of her toolbox. Rebecca blends client-centered listening with methods that target unhelpful thinking and intense emotions.
Together with each client she builds a plan that fits their life and goals. People who reach out to Rebecca often want practical change and a steady, respectful presence.
She aims to help clients feel more able to handle daily stress and to make choices that reflect their values.
How Rebecca’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy starts with listening and following the client's pace. It focuses on understanding each person’s experience and helping them feel heard, which can reduce isolation and build trust.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Online CBT sessions often use straightforward tools to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and low mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It can include short skill-building exercises that fit well into video or text-based formats so people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rebecca will discuss goals and preferences and help choose techniques that match each person's needs. She adapts methods over time if something isn't working and encourages practical experiments to see what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in formats that suit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text messaging work for brief check-ins, skill prompts, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and try different ways of connecting to find what feels best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English