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Therapy for Grieving & Stressed-Out Women
in St. Louis, MO

I Help Women Find 
Meaning and Fulfillment, 
After Their Life's Been Turned Upside Down With Loss, Change, and Stress.

​If you're anything like the women I work with, you're smart, successful, kind, and thoughtful. Everyone knows they can turn to you and count on you. You're someone who's always got it all together, and it's no surprise that you've created a great life for yourself.

And yet – no matter that you've always done everything right – your life has just been turned completely upside down ...

You've been completely walloped by a death (recent or anticipated), an illness (your own or a loved one's), or dissatisfaction within your relationship (though you question if maybe you just expect too much).

You're feeling the heavy weight of shattered dreams and unmet expectations, or you're bowled over by the very real challenges that so often accompany even life's most wonderful, exciting, and positive changes (it's such a cruel twist, isn't it?!).

Life is feeling hard and so full of things outside of your control. It's a lot. And it sucks. 
You keep getting hit with wave after wave of all the big, challenging feelings: sorrow, anxiety, anger, regret, guilt, overwhelm, you name it.

​You're typically so sure of yourself, but now you've lost your sense of self, no longer sure who you are or what the hell your life looks like moving forward.
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It’s all getting in the way of living in ways that are important to you. You aren’t fully being the kind of person you want to be, definitely not for yourself and sometimes not even for others.

You’re feeling disconnected from yourself and from your life; you’re feeling lost, confused, and stuck.

And no matter how much you’ve got going for you – and you’ve got a lot – this is all just feeling like too much.
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You fear this is just your new normal now, struggling inside while trying to keep it all together on the outside. And you do a good job – maybe too good a job – on that last part, because everyone else still believes you’re doing so well.

You’re desperate for support, but no one seems to get what you’re feeling. Hell, you’re not even sure yourself! You’ve tried to figure it all out. After all, you’ve figured everything else out that’s ever come your way – but this is getting the best of you.
​And so now you're here – literally here, on my website (hi!) – and I'm so glad you are. You've come to the right place, because there is absolutely reason for hope.

You can have what you're wanting – to rediscover yourself, to find meaning in your life now, and to move forward with a sense of hopefulness. 

You can be the woman you want to be, for others and for yourself.

​No matter what life's throwing at you, you can have clarity, meaning, joy, and purpose.

You're ready to find a sense of fulfillment in your everyday life again, and I can help you get there.

Helping Grieving & Stressed-Out Women 
Find Fulfillment, No Matter What
Loss, Change, or Disappointment
Life Has Thrown Their Way.

Meet Rebecca

I'm Rebecca (she/her). I'm hyper-organized and punctual, and so I apparently then seem like I've got all my adulting shit together. Don't let that fool you. 
 
My internal landscape can be just as messy as anyone's (we're all just people here, after all), but through my own experiences in therapy, and because of my training and experience as a therapist, I generally know how to tend to it well with gentle care and compassion. 
 
Even so, that doesn't change the fact that I don't like feeling any of the big, challenging, uncomfortable emotions any more than any of my clients do. 
 
Because I get it; this work – of being human, of being a human in therapy – is hard. I also believe it to be absolutely worthwhile.

My work is informed by progressive and feminist values.

​​These values are why I come to therapy from a Social Work background.
​We Social Workers are a rowdy bunch who refuse to accept the status quo.

LGBTQIA Affirming 
Racial Justice Allied 
​Body- and Sex-Positive ​

My Specialties

​​Grief: Death & Dying


When someone you love is dying or has died, there is no shortage of bullshit people will say to you. You keep trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but you've never needed people more, and yet, here you are feeling all alone.

Grief is such a lonely, confusing, and exhausting place to be. You don’t know who you are now or what your life is moving forward.

You so want to share how you actually feel, and not have to do some shitty performative small talk about it all.

You want to figure out how to manage these waves of overwhelming feelings – deep sadness, anger, guilt, fear, and sometimes even relief (yes, relief. If that's you, you're not alone).

​You want to figure out something for your life moving forward, even if you have no idea what that is yet.

​You're in the right place; I'm here to help.

​Grief: Illness & Health Conditions


 Along with all the totally unwanted things it brings, a health diagnosis – whether your own or a loved one's; whether chronic, treatable, terminal, or unknown – also brings grief. We grieve because our life now doesn't look or feel like how we thought it would.

This may be a private experience for you, all while trying to keep up a good face with the rest of the world that all remains well in your life. Those efforts, while completely understandable, are also exhausting, on top of the exhaustion of the grief and all the ways your life has been upended.
 
But make no mistake, even with the support of others, this is just damn hard. The pitying looks, the awkward encounters, the loaded ever-present “how are you?” question that never seems to want an honest answer. They mean well. You hope.

You want to figure out how to support yourself and how to keep moving forward.

You're in the right place; I'm here to help.

 ​Stress: Relationship Dissatisfaction & Overwhelm with Big Change

You're stressed out and overwhelmed. You've gotten so far in life because of the high standards you've always set for yourself. But somehow, there's still something missing: happiness, fulfillment, contentment. 

You're feeling the heavy weight of dissatisfaction within your marriage or partnership. Or you're feeling buried under the stress and challenges of even the most wonderful! exciting! positive! changes in your life  – the ones you've dreamed of, the ones that are now here.

You worry that your expectations are just too high. That you're wanting too much. That you're really the problem here. So you beat yourself up, not knowing what else to do.

You want to figure out how to find those missing pieces for yourself. You're ready to figure out how to get that elusive happiness and contentment. You didn't expect it to be so hard or tricky.

You're in the right place; I'm here to help.

I Want Therapy To Be

Convenient

Practical matters shouldn’t be an obstacle to getting help, so I offer 24/7 online scheduling for my clients, a secure patient portal to easily complete intake paperwork, and online therapy so you can fit getting help into your schedule.

Helpful

My sessions are engaging and collaborative, so you can get the most out of it. I won’t simply smile-and-nod at you, and I won’t be taking notes while you’re sharing. I keep my caseload small so I can do my best work for you. We’re in this together.

Authentic

My clients and I have zero interest in a stuffy or formal relationship in therapy. We care about building a real relationship with each other. That way, my clients can be fully themselves – no censorship needed! – while getting the help they deserve.
Keep Getting To Know Me!
To learn more about the work clients and I do together – what sessions with me are like, what you can expect from our work together, and what my clients have said about their lives because of our work together – click below!

Offering Online Therapy 

All the Benefits of In-Person Therapy, None of the Hassle

Useful Information

Online Therapy

My clients and I (perhaps surprisingly?) have both come to prefer online therapy, so much so it's what I now offer exclusively. If you have doubts, I totally get it. I did too, once. Click below to learn why I was so wrong.

Rates

I don't accept insurance (click below to learn why!), but you have several options available to help with cost, including utilizing out-of-network benefits. Keep reading to learn more.

First Appointment

No need to worry about what to say or how to prepare! You don’t have to take the lead here; I got you. Our first session is a chance for me to ask questions so that I can get a better sense of what brings you to therapy and who you are as a whole person, outside of therapy.

Sessions

​Therapy sessions are 45 minutes, and clients schedule either weekly or every-other week. Many clients often later transition to monthly appointments, finding these regular check-ins a valuable way to keep supporting themselves.

Let's talk! I'm here to help.

Whether you’re ready to schedule yesterday, or you’re just dipping your toes in the water (it’s warm, I promise!), I’m here to help. 

We both want you to find the therapist that’s the right fit for you.

So let’s chat. Whether by email or phone (your choice!), you can ask any questions you may have and we can see if we’d work well together. And if I end up not being your right fit, I’m absolutely happy to help with referrals to point you in the right direction.
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