Rebecca Hyatt , LCSW

Rebecca Hyatt is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She aims to create a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken honestly without judgment.

Rebecca uses straightforward conversation to help clients identify what matters to them. She listens closely and asks practical questions that point toward clarity. Sessions tend to focus on small, achievable steps that fit into everyday life.

Her approach combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused work. That means Rebecca pays attention to each person’s experience, looks at how thoughts affect feelings, and helps set short-term goals to build momentum. This mix is useful for mood concerns, panic, social anxiety, and stress from work or life change.

Rebecca also works with issues often faced by women, including self-esteem, self-love, and life transitions. She brings experience addressing communication problems, family of origin concerns, codependency, and challenges tied to aging. She helps people untangle complicated situations and find practical next steps.

Sessions are offered in English and provided to adults in California. Rebecca supports people through change, loss, and decisions like separation or substance concerns by focusing on what a client wants to change next.

How Rebecca blends approaches for online therapy

Rebecca uses client-centered therapy to follow each person's lead and focus on what matters most to them. This approach centers on listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions, which can be useful for stress, self-esteem, and life purpose concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify thoughts that increase anxiety or depression and then tries small changes in thinking and behavior. It is practical for panic attacks, social anxiety, and workplace stress because it targets patterns that maintain symptoms.

Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on immediate goals and next steps rather than long histories. It is helpful when someone wants clear, short-term progress on issues like communication problems, codependency, or navigating a separation.

Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Rebecca will discuss goals, try approaches that fit the person's needs, and adjust based on what helps. She aims to build short-term wins while supporting longer-term change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and messaging allows brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.