Rebecca Preston
Calm, practical support for life’s hard changes
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rebecca
Rebecca Preston is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses much of her work on people dealing with substance use and the emotional, physical, and relationship challenges that often come with it. Her style is warm and approachable, and she aims to make therapy feel straightforward and humane.
She uses mindfulness and client-focused methods to help people find practical ways forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes helping people with complex trauma and attachment wounds that may stretch back across generations. She also has experience addressing mood conditions such as anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder, along with personality-related difficulties and co-occurring challenges. Rebecca draws on several evidence-informed approaches, including cognitive behavioral work and solution-focused strategies, tailored to each person’s needs.
In sessions she keeps the tone compassionate and sometimes playful to ease stress and build trust. She emphasizes skills people can use between meetings, like grounding exercises and thought-checking tools. Treatment plans are collaborative and adjust as goals change.
Rebecca offers therapy in English and practices in New York. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.
Her aim is to walk alongside clients through recovery and life transitions, helping them develop self-compassion and practical coping skills while they work toward clearer goals.
Approach, Support, and Online Flexibility
Rebecca frequently uses Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at how early relationships shape present-day feelings and patterns, and helps people untangle recurring trust or closeness issues. She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT, a hands-on method that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety, mood symptoms, and unhelpful coping patterns.Finding the right blend of methods is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to figure out which approaches fit their needs and goals. Plans are adjusted as progress and preferences become clearer, and clients are invited to give feedback about what feels helpful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to use skills in daily life between meetings and to stay connected when in-person visits are difficult. The variety of session types supports practical access to care while keeping the focus on the therapeutic work.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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