About Reba
Reba James meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps toward feeling better. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, who focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, and depression. The tone in sessions is direct and supportive, and parents will find clear, down-to-earth guidance when parenting or relationship strain feels overwhelming.
Reba draws on six years of hands-on work across many settings.
Background and approach
Her background includes group homes, residential treatment, crisis centers, juvenile drug court, and outpatient services. She has worked with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities and with those facing addiction, trauma, grief, and major life changes. In sessions she helps people name what is most urgent and then chooses practical steps to try.
Conversations are straightforward and focused on small changes that make daily life easier. She also addresses career stress, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns in concrete ways. Her approach is collaborative.
Reba partners with each person to set goals and to check progress over time. She aims to build skills for coping and decision making rather than offering quick fixes. Reba practices in Virginia and works in English.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can match therapy to their day-to-day schedules and needs.
Evidence-based approaches and online sessions
Reba uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use right away. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and emotion regulation to manage stress, anxiety, anger, and mood swings; it breaks problems into small, doable steps and teaches strategies for day-to-day use. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship patterns by identifying unhelpful habits and practicing new ways to express needs and set boundaries, which helps with intimacy-related issues and parenting challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as progress is reviewed. This helps ensure the plan matches the client’s needs and preferences rather than following a fixed script.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation from wherever is convenient. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option and work well for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short updates or steps into a busy day. These formats give flexibility to match therapy to daily life while keeping the focus on practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English