- Mindfulness-based care
- Focus on trauma
- Practical tools
About Rebecca
Rebecca Preston is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York with eight years of clinical experience. She has focused much of her practice on helping people affected by substance use and the emotional, relational, and physical challenges that come with addiction. Rebecca works in a warm and approachable way and aims to make therapy feel manageable for people under stress.
Her background includes supporting people with complex trauma, including intergenerational wounds and childhood attachment problems. She also helps individuals facing mood disorders such as anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder, along with personality-related concerns. Rebecca has worked with people from many cultural backgrounds and a broad age range.
Rebecca’s style is compassionate and often playful, because she believes therapy should not add more difficulty to life. She uses mindfulness-based counseling as a foundation, and centers the person’s experience when planning sessions. This means sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on practical steps they can try between meetings.
In sessions she mixes evidence-informed ideas like cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused steps with attention to relational patterns from attachment-based work. That blend is used to address things like stress, sleep problems, self-esteem, and coping with life changes, including coping after natural or human-caused disaster.
Rebecca describes recovery and wellness as ongoing work. She aims to walk alongside people while offering tools, questions, and skills to manage cravings, regulate strong emotions, and rebuild a steadier daily routine.
How Rebecca’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Rebecca uses mindfulness-based counseling and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice thoughts and feelings and try small, practical changes. Mindfulness work focuses on present-moment awareness, breathing, and grounding skills that can reduce reactivity and improve sleep. Cognitive behavioral ideas look at patterns of thinking and behavior and introduce experiments or small tasks to change unhelpful cycles.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how past relationships shape current trust and communication. That perspective helps when people struggle with abandonment, attachment issues, or recurring relationship stresses. Together, these approaches aim to make sessions relevant and doable for the person in front of her.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Rebecca will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. Clients and the therapist check in regularly to adjust focus, try new strategies, and set realistic steps between sessions.
Confirm the specific online session formats before booking, as the biography does not list formats. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, enable shorter check-in conversations when needed, and reduce travel time. It also allows practicing mindfulness and behavioral exercises in the settings where people live and sleep, which can help transfer skills to daily routines.
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Experience
8+ years
Credentials
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Rebecca help with?
She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, grief, sleep problems, bipolar disorder, depression, and low self-esteem, among other concerns.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Rebecca uses a warm, empathetic, and sometimes playful style. Sessions emphasize mindfulness, client-centered conversation, and practical strategies to try between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of clinical experience working with people facing substance use, complex trauma, mood disorders, and related challenges.
What credentials and region are listed for this therapist?
Rebecca is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC - practicing in New York.
Which languages are supported and can international clients work together?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.