About
I am Rebecca Waterston, M.A., LMHC (licensed in the state of Washington). I am dedicated to helping others gain peace, understanding and positive changes that make life and relationships more enjoyable and to make coping with difficulties easier to handle. This is a mission, not just a career and I consider God my partner and the Holy Spirit my "download specialist" for what each client is in need of.
I work with individuals, adults and adolescents, as well as with couples and with couples looking toward marriage. Communications, expectations and believing the 'stories we make up in our heads' about others to be the largest areas of misunderstanding for most of us. I work remotely with Washington state clients using a HIPAA-compliant, confidential and encrypted platform. I have found online counseling to be as effective for most types of therapy and find that most of my clients enjoy being able to meet from the comfort of their own home.
My specialties include trauma work with efficacy-based, non-retraumatizing treatment protocols that I have found tremendously helpful and successful in relieving past pain and traumatic experiences. Another area that comes in high on that list is anxiety, which seems to be nearly epidemic with large number of clients reporting that as their major difficulty.
I enjoy working with adolescents are usually dealing with family difficulties, relationship/friendship issues, bullying, or feeling different, isolated and different from their peers. Helping them truly get to know themselves, to value their uniqueness, learning that their very differences are often their greatest strengths. As they learn skills in this way they also learn to change their upsetting thoughts that are often the major cause for the emotional pain they are experiencing.
Other specialties include self esteem, women's issues, and men's individual issues as well. Others are coping with the loss of a loved one or the loss of a significan relationship. Clients are experiencing grief, separation or divorce, and communication difficulties. Early 20-somethings are oftentimes not sure where they belong, who they are and what they would like to do with their lives and I have worked with a number of these people who strongly desire following their value system, their belief set and want to have integrity and character in their dealings. A couple of more recent specialties include "Women's Mental Health Issues," including all aspects & stages of a woman's life. I also work with HSPs (highly sensitive people) who can begin to thrive as they learn how to self-regulate, restore and gently care for themselves in a 'Loud, Fast, Too-Much World.' Too often they have just been called "too sensitive" and even dismissed as weak or awkward. But their unique blend of empathy, intelligence and awarenesses are qualities that they can learn to thrive with as they learn how to care for themselves.
I have experience working with couples and families in addictions, whether it be substance addictions (alcohol / drugs) or process additions which can include sex addiction/recovery, gambing or the one of the more recent is gaming and we are seeing an entire generation living their lives online.
worked with addictions, including drug and alcohol substance abuse, sex addiction and working with betrayed partners of sex addicts in recovery, and also with codependents and love addicts, who too often lose themselves in a relationship. Partners of those fighting addiction also need support and I have worked primarily with women trying to carve out their own lives and well-being, as well as their children's safety and environment in the face of the addiction of a family member. Psychoeducation, support and resources of different kinds are vital to this work.
There is no one-size-fits all with therapeutic tools, so I determine what my client needs are first, and then we explore appropriate interventions that will be the most helpful at that time or for tha
Why I Became a Professional Christian Therapist
I have been so fortunate to have found fantastic counselors early on in my life and through their guidance, along with my faith in God, has allowed me to overcome so very much. I am so grateful and it became a mission for me to help as many other people as I could as my way of "giving back" all that has been given to me and all of the healing I have personally been able to do in my life. I am old enough to have had a lot of life experience and I find that is also extremely helpful to me in understanding where my clients are coming from and what they are going through. This was a career God led me to very early in my life, and he gave me the opportunity to pursue it a bit later in life after a number of other successful careers in both business and creative fields. I am blessed and want to pass that blessing on!
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