About Reba
Reba Parla offers a practical, interactive style of therapy that focuses on everyday tools people can use right away. She highlights past successes to help clients see how change is possible. Reba uses short breathing and affirmation exercises during sessions to ground conversations and teach coping skills.
Her work centers on stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and attention challenges such as ADHD. She also addresses midlife shifts, mood changes including seasonal affective concerns, and the hurdles that come with blended family dynamics and communication problems.
Background and approach
Reba brings a clear focus to issues like codependency, commitment worries, guilt and shame, and hoarding behaviors. Reba combines cognitive behavioral methods with a strengths-based perspective to help people build habits that stick. Sessions are interactive; she checks in regularly to make sure the approach fits each person’s needs.
Practical skills and brief exercises are woven into talk, so clients leave with concrete steps to practice between sessions. She has five years of clinical experience and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential. Reba practices in Maine and conducts sessions in English.
Her background includes work with aging and geriatric issues and with people who have intellectual disability, bringing a patient, steady pace to complex concerns. People looking for flexible remote options can work with Reba through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The process begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client’s needs.
Evidence-based techniques for remote care
Reba uses cognitive behavioral methods that focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes. This approach helps with anxiety, mood shifts, and stress by turning ideas into practical actions. She also uses a strengths-based approach that highlights what is already working for a person and builds on those abilities to tackle current problems.The right approach often emerges through conversation. Reba collaborates with each person to find which techniques fit their goals, needs, and daily life. She checks in regularly and adjusts tools so they feel useful rather than academic or overwhelming.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for face-to-face conversations and teaching exercises. Phone meetings can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share progress and get brief coaching between longer sessions, adding flexibility for busy routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English