About Rebecca
Rebecca Sperber is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience. She works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and depression. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aiming to make each session feel useful and manageable.
Rebecca focuses on listening first. She learns what matters to each person and then shapes conversations and goals to match. She uses practical tools and clear talk to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Her background includes long clinical experience in California. That time has given her familiarity with a wide range of concerns, including attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, and coping with chronic illness or caregiver stress. She also supports people facing body image worries, aging and geriatric issues, and the impacts of cancer or other serious illness.
Rebecca blends approaches so work is concrete and tailored. She draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to build trust, and uses cognitive-behavioral and dialectical skills for coping and behavior change. Emotionally-focused methods help when relationships and intimacy are central concerns.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Rebecca encourages small, doable steps and checks in about what helps. The aim is to reduce distress and strengthen skills people can use between sessions.
How Rebecca’s Approaches Work Online
Rebecca often uses attachment-based work to help people understand how early relationships shape current connections. That approach focuses on feeling understood, noticing interaction patterns, and changing how people relate to others when intimacy or trust is a concern. She also uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and to try out new behaviors in everyday life; CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She partners with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions may shift over time as progress and priorities change, and the choice of techniques is made together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual connection matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth or movement is an issue, and messaging works well for short check-ins or flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to add therapy into a busy life and to keep regular contact between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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