Rebecca Marrs , LMFT

Rebecca Marrs is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with ten years in the mental health field. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns. Rebecca also helps people navigating parenting, career shifts, ADHD, and issues related to identity and LGBT concerns.

She begins care by asking what brought someone to therapy and by gathering a clear picture of current needs. An intake conversation includes a brief mental status overview and a collaborative plan that sets short-term and long-term goals. Rebecca emphasizes that clients have a voice in each step of their care.

Her approach is down-to-earth and goal oriented. She uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most. Cognitive behavioral strategies are offered to surface unhelpful thoughts and try practical behavior changes. Mindfulness-based techniques and trauma-focused work are also part of the toolbox when the history calls for them.

Rebecca has worked in homes, schools, community settings, agencies, and office settings. Her experience includes supporting people with adoption and foster care backgrounds, those facing chronic illness, and people coping with separation or reunification. She draws on that variety to tailor sessions to daily life demands.

In sessions she aims to make people feel heard and validated while working toward clearer coping steps. Rebecca helps people build skills they can use between sessions, such as communication strategies, stress management tools, and ways to improve sleep and daily routines.

How Rebecca’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy starts by meeting each person where they are and shaping sessions around what matters most. This approach is about listening, reflecting, and making sure clients guide the pace and topics of work.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In online sessions Rebecca may use CBT to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small experiments to change daily habits and mood.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help reduce reactivity and improve sleep or stress responses. These practices can be introduced in a session and then tried between meetings.

Finding the right fit is a team effort. Rebecca collaborates with clients to decide which approaches to try first based on goals and what feels doable. Treatment plans are adjusted as people try strategies and report what helps most.

Online formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work and demonstrations, phone sessions suit lower-bandwidth or camera-free check-ins, live chat is handy for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity when schedules or locations change.