Rebecca Dykes
Compassionate social worker for practical family support
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rebecca
Rebecca Dykes is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience in Florida. She combines clinical experience with teaching and research interests to help people through hard seasons. Her background includes work across inpatient, outpatient, and forensic settings, and she has supported people facing anxiety, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, and stress.
She also brings experience supporting neurodivergent people and those navigating ministry life. Rebecca favors a direct but warm style.
Background and approach
She aims to meet people where they are and walk alongside them. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer communication, and building skills to manage emotions and daily demands. Her work has involved children with attachment and sensory regulation needs and adolescents working on emotional regulation and executive functioning.
She has also worked with adults facing domestic violence, addiction, or reintegration after military deployment. Those experiences inform how she tailors support to different life stages and challenges. Rebecca uses a mix of client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior ideas, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies.
She adapts these methods to each person’s situation and goals rather than sticking to a single approach. Outside clinical work she teaches at the college level and has interests in theology and neurotheology. Her faith-informed perspective informs some of her work when it fits the person’s preferences, and she strives to avoid stigmatizing labels while treating people with respect and compassion.
Therapies and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so the person feels heard and understood. It helps when someone needs a safe space to talk through parenting stress, grief, or life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage moods, or break unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, combines skill-building in emotion regulation and distress tolerance with a focus on balancing acceptance and change, which can be useful for anger, intense emotions, or chronic stress.The therapist will work collaboratively to find the best fit. That means discussing goals, trying approaches, and adjusting as needed rather than committing to one method from the start. The process is a partnership where client needs and preferences guide the choice of techniques.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging. This range makes it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, handle sudden needs between sessions, and access care from wherever a person is in Florida. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review progress, and support coping strategies in ways that match each person’s life and routine.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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