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Rebecca Wagner

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Rebecca Wagner, LMHC

New York

Licensed Mental Health Counselor - Anger and Trauma

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Key details

  • CredentialsLMHC
  • LicenseLMHC, New York / 004417
  • NPI1285141184
  • Experience19 years
  • LanguagesEnglish
  • LocationNew York

About

  • Client-Centered Therapy
  • CBT for thoughts and actions
  • DBT skills training

About Rebecca

Rebecca Wagner is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with 19 years of experience. She works with adults who are dealing with anger, stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and family concerns. She also helps people coping with trauma, grief, ADHD, and life transitions.

Rebecca uses a client-centered stance. She treats the person as the expert on their own life and offers tools and skills to manage difficult moments. Sessions focus on practical strategies you can use between meetings, including moment-to-moment skills practice and brief check-ins when needed.

Her background includes long-term work with trauma and self-harm concerns. She has experience supporting people through sexual assault and abuse, post-traumatic stress, and living with family members who have persistent mental illness. She also supports parents dealing with adoption, foster care issues, and the stresses of parenting.

Rebecca draws on several approaches to get concrete results. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thought and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy informs skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy guide short-term goal-setting and change-oriented work.

She values telehealth as a way to offer more frequent contacts and in-the-moment skills coaching. To begin a match, follow the site flow to complete the short questionnaire and schedule an initial session. Questions about session formats and scheduling can be confirmed before booking.

How sessions work

How Rebecca’s approaches translate to online work

Rebecca commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her work. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete exercises to test and change those patterns, which can help with anger, anxiety, and depression. DBT focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, offering step-by-step skills to manage intense feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.

She also uses a client-centered stance and Motivational Interviewing to clarify what you want to change and to support small, achievable steps. Finding the right combination of approaches is collaborative - the therapist will discuss options and adjust methods to fit your goals and preferences as you go.

The original biography notes a positive experience with telehealth because it can allow for more frequent contacts and brief check-ins that support in-the-moment skills coaching. The biography does not list specific session formats here, so confirm which formats are offered before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work or family commitments, allow shorter skill-focused check-ins between full sessions, and reduce travel time while retaining the same therapeutic methods used in person.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefAnger managementBipolar disorderCoping with life changes

Additional focus areas

Adoption and foster careAutism and Asperger SyndromeCommunication problemsFamily problemsImpulsivityPanic disorder and panic attacksPost-traumatic stressSelf-harmSexual assault and abuse

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Motivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

19+ years

Listed in

New York

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she help with?

She works with anger, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and family issues, ADHD, parenting, and related concerns.

How would she describe her therapeutic style?

Rebecca uses a client-centered approach that focuses on your goals and offers practical tools. She also incorporates CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused techniques.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 19 years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns including trauma, self-harm, and parenting challenges.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor - practicing in New York.

Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?

Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients at this time.

What session formats are available?

Session formats are not listed in the biography. Please confirm current session options before booking.

How does billing and cost work?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

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