Rebecca Preston, LMHC

Rebecca Preston is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York with eight years of clinical experience. She began her work supporting people with substance use and the many emotional and relational problems that often come with it. Her focus includes trauma, mood disorders, and challenges tied to attachment and relationships.

She describes her style as warm, empathetic, and occasionally playful. Sessions are grounded in mindfulness and center on the person in the room. She aims to help people notice patterns, build small practical tools, and treat themselves with more compassion.

Rebecca has worked with people who have histories of complex trauma, including intergenerational trauma and childhood attachment difficulties. She also has experience helping those managing anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and a range of personality challenges. These experiences inform a cautious, trauma-aware way of working.

Her practice brings together Attachment-Based ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral techniques when useful. She emphasizes collaboration and focuses on what a person wants to change now. This keeps sessions practical and oriented toward concrete steps.

Rebecca often helps people facing addictions, grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, ADHD, sleep struggles, and struggles with self-esteem or body image. She supports LGB T clients and people coping with life transitions. Her approach is to walk alongside clients and help them build tools that fit everyday life.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at how people connect, withdraw, or get stuck and helps them try new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down patterns of thoughts and behaviors into manageable parts and builds practical exercises to shift them over time. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve stress management; it is often paired with other work to help people feel steadier day to day.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what feels most useful based on current needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying things, checking in, and adjusting the plan rather than committing to a single method from the start.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm available session types before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow quicker check-ins between appointments. Some formats are better for quieter conversations, others for shorter follow-ups or when video is difficult. Rebecca uses her clinical approaches to shape sessions so techniques translate into everyday life and coping strategies that can be practiced between meetings.