About Rebecca
Rebecca Zabinski is a licensed professional clinical counselor in Minnesota with 13 years of experience. She meets people where they are and helps them find practical steps toward feeling steadier. Her work often addresses anxiety, depression, phobias, and the everyday stress that gets overwhelming.
Rebecca keeps sessions warm and interactive. She listens closely and crafts a plan together with each person. She uses straightforward tools so clients can try new skills between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes helping people with trauma and abuse, relationship and parenting challenges, ADHD, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She has also supported people facing grief, addiction, chronic illness, and identity questions related to gender or sexual orientation. Rebecca draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful patterns and on attachment-based thinking to look at relationship dynamics.
She blends these with client-centered listening, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing to help people set and reach goals. Sessions are adapted to age and needs, from school-related worries to adult life transitions. Rebecca pays attention to how physical health, sleep, and stress interact with emotions.
She works with practical steps - breaking big problems into manageable tasks and practicing skills in daily life. Her tone is respectful and compassionate while staying focused on progress. Rebecca encourages small steps that build confidence and reduce fear, so people can move toward the life they want.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Rebecca often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, phobias, sleep problems, and low mood. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current patterns, which can help with relationship struggles, trust issues, and parenting concerns. Client-centered work underpins her sessions by keeping conversations focused on each person’s priorities and strengths.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Rebecca collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. Together they adjust pace and techniques over time to match changing needs.
Online therapy makes these approaches more accessible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, homework support, and quicker touchpoints between scheduled sessions. These formats provide flexibility for busy schedules, help maintain momentum between meetings, and let people use the tools in the setting that works best for them.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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