Rebecca Holland, LCSW

Rebecca Holland is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports people facing life changes, addictions, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, and mood-related concerns. Rebecca draws on practical tools and a straightforward style to help people make small, steady changes.

Rebecca has worked in social work settings for 12 years. She focuses on concrete skills such as problem solving, behavior changes, and coping strategies. Sessions are collaborative and goal oriented, with clear steps people can try between meetings. She often combines cognitive-behavioral ideas with mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.

People who meet with Rebecca can expect direct feedback and structured exercises. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, test them, and replace them with more balanced ways of thinking. Rebecca also teaches emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for intense feelings like anger, panic, or overwhelming sadness.

Rebecca pays attention to relationship patterns, attachment wounds, and issues such as abandonment, communication problems, and forgiveness. She offers practical support for parenting stress, caregiver strain, and the effects of trauma and loss. Her approach is steady and pragmatic rather than vague or purely theoretical.

Sessions are offered in English and are available through several online formats. Rebecca uses methods that fit each person’s goals, helping them build routines, improve sleep and eating habits, reduce panic, and reclaim a clearer sense of life purpose.

How Rebecca Uses Evidence-Based Skills Online

Rebecca commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep problems like anxiety and depression going. CBT focuses on small experiments and practical strategies that can be practiced between sessions.

She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. These DBT-informed techniques are useful for intense emotions, anger, panic, and patterns that cause repeated conflict or self-criticism.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Rebecca will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs, and chat or messaging work well for quick check-ins, written skill practice, or shorter exchanges between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets in the way.