Rebecca Marrs
Compassionate therapist for parents and families
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rebecca
Rebecca Marrs is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California. She has ten years of experience in the mental health field and brings that background to family and parenting concerns. Rebecca meets people where they are and focuses on clear goals for therapy.
She begins with an intake conversation that includes a mental status exam. That intake flows naturally during the first sessions while she asks why someone chose therapy and what they hope to change.
Background and approach
Clients help shape the goals and have a voice in each step. Rebecca has worked across many settings, including in-home visits, schools, community programs, agency environments, and a personal office. Her experience includes supporting people with trauma, adoption and foster care histories, separation and reunification, and challenges linked to medical conditions and caregiving stress.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She listens, clarifies problems, and works with clients to try techniques that fit their daily lives. Rebecca uses methods that range from talking through feelings to structured exercises and mindfulness practices.
She has supported concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, sleep problems, ADHD, and relationship concerns. Rebecca also addresses topics like communication difficulties, blended family dynamics, and caregiver strain. Sessions aim to leave people with clearer steps and tools to try between appointments.
Rebecca emphasizes collaboration and gradual progress so change feels manageable over time.
How Rebecca’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Rebecca often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In sessions she helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tries concrete alternatives that can reduce anxiety or improve mood. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and grounding practices that help with stress, sleep, and emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rebecca will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit their needs. That process is collaborative - the client’s feedback helps shape which tools are used and how sessions proceed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when travel is hard, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into busy family schedules.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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