About Rebecca
Rebecca Hathorn helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. She works with concerns such as relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, ADHD, and issues related to identity and belonging. Rebecca is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in California and draws on 17 years of experience as a therapist.
Her style is straightforward and conversational. She aims to build a trusting relationship and to listen closely before offering reflections and practical suggestions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what feels most urgent to the person in front of her. Rebecca uses practical approaches to help people manage emotions and solve problems. She blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral ideas to notice unhelpful thinking and test small changes.
Solution-focused techniques help set clear short-term goals and track progress. She also uses narrative ideas to help people make sense of difficult experiences and motivational interviewing to support clearer choices and commitment to change. These methods are used together to match a person’s needs and preferences rather than following one fixed model.
Rebecca has substantial experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment questions, blended family challenges, and parenting stress. She is familiar with work-related burnout and compassion fatigue, and she offers support for people facing midlife shifts, career questions, and finding renewed purpose. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online in formats that include video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Rebecca aims to help people find manageable steps that fit into a busy life.
How Rebecca’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on building a respectful, accepting relationship where the person’s priorities guide the sessions. This approach is useful for people who need a space to talk through emotions and get support in making decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify patterns of thinking that increase stress and then tests small behavior changes to reduce symptoms. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress related to work or parenting.
Motivational Interviewing supports clarity and commitment when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change. It uses gentle questions and reflection to boost motivation for concrete steps forward.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals, try different strategies, and adapt methods based on what helps most. That collaboration makes it easier to focus on useful, realistic steps.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual feedback. Phone sessions may be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to get brief support during busy days or to track progress between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy fits into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English