Rebecca Waterston, LMHC

Rebecca Waterston is a Washington-licensed clinician with ten years of professional counseling experience and a history of working with hundreds of clients. She holds the LMHC credential - Licensed Mental Health Counselor - and supports people across the lifespan, from young teens navigating self-understanding and low self-esteem to older adults confronting major losses, grief, and life transitions.

Her practice often focuses on anxiety and the sleep disturbances and low mood that can accompany it. She guides clients to explore their inner experience and practical options for change, helping them develop self-respect, effective coping skills, and healthier ways of relating to others. Relationship and communication struggles are common presenting concerns, and she helps partners identify and shift coping patterns that frequently trace back to early family dynamics.

Trauma work is an important part of her practice, including recovery from single-incident events and complex trauma stemming from family addiction, neglect, emotional abuse, mental illness, or the death of a loved one. She emphasizes restoring self-confidence and decision-making capacity so clients can better judge who is beneficial or harmful in their lives.

Rebecca also works with teens facing bullying and social media pressures, and with individuals and families affected by addiction to reduce fear and increase healthy emotional boundaries. She takes a collaborative, exploratory approach to therapy, encouraging clients to take the first step and to notice incremental progress over time.

Approach-Focused Online Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites clients to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying personal values and taking committed action. It can help with anxiety, stress, and finding direction during life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional needs, making it useful for relationship struggles, codependency, and healing from relational trauma. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and modifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, low mood, and stress-related difficulties.

Deciding which approach fits best is part of the therapeutic process. Rebecca works collaboratively with clients to identify goals, preferences, and the strategies that feel most helpful, adjusting methods over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which can make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and life commitments. Working with licensed professionals remotely can increase access to consistent care while allowing clients to engage in therapy from wherever they are.