Rebecca Wiklanski, LMSW

Rebecca Wiklanski is a licensed master of social work in Michigan who uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people feel more confident and steady. She focuses on building self-esteem and supporting personal growth. Rebecca keeps a calm, accepting tone in sessions and adapts her work to each person's needs.

She combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with other approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered work to clarify values and support small, doable steps toward change. Those tools are useful for stress, anxiety, panic, and mood concerns.

Rebecca has seven years of clinical experience and includes trauma-focused tools when needed, such as EMDR and Emotionally-Focused Therapy methods. She uses these approaches to help people process difficult memories and improve emotional connection to themselves and others. Sessions center on practical skills and real-life application.

She welcomes a range of identities and beliefs and aims to create an inclusive space for exploration and growth. Rebecca helps people work through family strain, parenting stress, relationship issues, and life transitions without judging their background or story.

In sessions she focuses on clear goals, simple exercises, and steady progress. People leave with coping strategies they can use between meetings. Her work is straightforward and geared toward usable change.

How Rebecca’s approaches translate to online work

Rebecca uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is hands-on and often includes short exercises between sessions to practice coping skills for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small actions toward those values. ACT can help with stress, low self-worth, and life changes by shifting attention away from fighting unpleasant feelings and toward meaningful activity.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Rebecca aims to partner with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and comfort. She will adjust techniques over time based on what is working in sessions and in daily life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit a tighter schedule or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be a quick check-in or ongoing brief support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep progress moving forward.