About Rebecca
Rebecca Smith is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in West Virginia. She holds a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and brings nine years of direct clinical experience. She aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where people can begin to tackle hard problems.
Rebecca expects the first steps toward help can feel difficult and wants to support that commitment. Her work focuses on common and urgent concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and addiction.
Background and approach
She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Rebecca pays attention to how past wounds such as abandonment, attachment struggles, or family of origin problems shape current patterns. In sessions she uses clear, practical approaches.
She draws from client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test out different behaviors. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are used when people want short-term tools and focused direction.
Rebecca works with people facing life transitions, caregiver stress, first responder issues, and those coping with shame, guilt, or domestic violence histories. She aims to make plans that fit daily life, not just ideas that stay on paper. Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and goal-minded.
Her licensing details are WV LICSW DP00941912 and VA LCSW 0904017934. Sessions are provided in English and offered through online formats to reach people across the state.
How online therapy uses practical approaches
Rebecca commonly uses client-centered methods that focus conversations on each person’s priorities. That approach means sessions start with what matters most to the client, and the therapist follows their concerns while offering support and reflection.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try different actions to see what improves their mood or situation. Mindfulness therapy is used alongside these methods to build present-moment awareness and simple breath or attention practices that reduce stress and improve sleep.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of therapy. Rebecca works collaboratively to choose methods that match each person’s goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans based on what is helping and what is not.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone can fit into a busy schedule or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy going around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, Virginia
- Languages
- English