Rebecca Lederman, LCPC
Education: Wake Forest University, Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Clinical Areas: OCD, Social & General Anxiety, Phobias, Depression, Relationship & Interpersonal Issues, Family Conflict, Adjustment, Life Transitions, Loneliness, Fear, Shame, Anger
Treatment Modalities: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Inference-Based CBT, Somatic Therapy, Existential Therapy
Treatment Approach
I am committed to showing up for you. I will navigate these stormy waters alongside you and help you meet your true, emboldened Self.
My approach is depth-oriented. I like to get right to the heart of a matter and help clients find clarity, inner strength, and lasting change. I take great joy in offering encouraging words when needed. I also believe that imperative insights and authentic transformation arise when we are safely held in spaces of acceptance, openness, and curiosity.
Many people find counseling challenging; there is no way around it sometimes. Especially when many of us have spent decades running from or trying to numb ourselves from feelings of intense stress, exhaustion, or heaviness. However, if you commit to improving your mental health, you will find healing. I want to help you find yourself again. It’s time for you to discover that there is hope for you.
I aim to arm you with the care that will give you a sense of empowerment, self-understanding, and radical self-acceptance. This might mean sessions spent on tangible coping skills or concrete planning, or it may mean slowing down, practicing present-moment awareness, and experiencing deep inner healing.
No matter your concern, you deserve the space to feel important, understood, and cared for.
Outside of Work
When I’m not in sessions, I am most likely hanging out with my rescue dog, Olive, wandering through a forest, or eating tacos— or, even doing all of these at the same time!
Therapeutic Leanings
Existential Therapy
“Self-acceptance too often is intertwined with attempts to rationalize ourselves as being right or justified in our mistakes instead of embracing our humanity as imperfect creatures. Authentic self-acceptance requires that we are honest with ourselves about responsibility. Instead of seeking to justify our mistakes, we embrace them.”
— Louis Hoffman
Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT)
"Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Somatic Therapy
“The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one’s being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.”
— Thomas Hanna
Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian)
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
― Carl R. Rogers
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.”
— Pema Chodron
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
"Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it."
— Judy Blume
Are we a good fit?
Before committing to counseling, it’s important to feel like you will be working with a professional who accepts you and offers the type of services you want and need.
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