Online Therapy for Grieving & Stressed-Out Women
in St. Louis, MO
Helping grieving and stressed-out women find
Clarity, Meaning & Fulfillment
in their lives moving forward.
(Yes, it’s possible!)
If you’re anything like the women I work with, you’re smart and successful, thoughtful and introspective. Everyone knows they can count on you (and they do!), because you’re competent, steady, and reliable. And, because you’re also deeply kind and caring, the people in your life trust you and turn to you for support.
But alas, it’s no matter that you’ve always done everything right: Your world has just been turned upside down — by the grief of a death, a health diagnosis, a crumbling marriage, a shattered dream, or the devastations that accompany midlife.
You’re typically so sure of yourself, but now you’ve lost your sense of self. Your life is no longer quite what you thought it was or would be. You’re left feeling profoundly disoriented, lost amid the existential groundlessness of things falling apart.
None of your best efforts to cope right now are helping much, and you’re left not knowing what to do … and you always know what to do. No matter how much you’ve got going for you — and you’ve got a lot — this is all just feeling like entirely too much. You’ve figured everything out that’s ever come your way, but this is getting the best of you.
You’ve been in therapy before, and so it feels natural to reach out again now. 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. No matter what life’s throwing at you, you can have what you’re wanting: you can rediscover yourself, reconnect with your life, and move forward with clarity, meaning, and fulfillment.
Even though you didn’t ask for ANY of this, this is the space — the invitation — to do the deep and expansive work of a lifetime. To bravely (radically!) explore, from all of this messy wreckage, your evolving sense of self, the meaning of it all, and your essential desire to live in integrity and from a place of alignment.
These times of grief can do that to us, if we allow it.
And if you’re in, I’m in.
And, so, to you – the smart, sensitive, self-aware woman facing such profound grief and stress – I extend a warm welcome. My work is devoted to helping support women just like you: women who have come so far, and yet whose lives have just been upended.
My clients tell me they appreciate my down-to-earth, dynamic, and engaging style. We can do profoundly meaningful work together without any formality or stuffiness. And because my therapeutic approach is deeply relational (versus a rigid, protocol-based treatment of a specific diagnosis), my work often serves as long-term support across various seasons of my clients’ lives.
We’re in this together.
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 sh*t 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 practice is based in liberatory values.
My work is grounded in the liberatory values of equity and justice,
and is guided by a fiercely feminist and anti-oppression worldview.
Feminist
LGBTQ+ Celebratory
Racial Justice Allied
Body Liberation
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.
You’ve grieved before, but honestly it’s never been anything like this. This grief, now, is an utterly lonely, overwhelming, and exhausting place to be.
You so want a space where you don’t have to hide your pain with shitty performative small talk about it all.
You desperately want support with all these waves of overwhelming feelings – deep sadness, anger, guilt, fear, confusion, even relief (yes, relief. If that’s you, you’re not alone).
You’re longing to figure out what the hell to do now and how on earth to move forward.
You’re in the right place; I’m here to help.
Grief: Illness & Health
A health diagnosis – whether your own or a loved one’s; whether chronic, treatable, terminal, or unknown – brings so much that is entirely unwanted. The appointments, the side effects, the chaos and the tedium.
It also brings the specific and profound grief that our life no longer looks how we thought it would.
This may be an entirely private experience for you, all while trying to keep up a good face with the rest of the world that all remains well.
But, make no mistake, even with the support of others, this is HARD. The pitying looks, the awkward encounters, the loaded ever-present “how are you?” question that never seems to want an actual honest answer. (They mean well. You hope.)
You’re longing to figure out how to navigate and support yourself amid all of this.
You’re in the right place; I’m here to help.
Grief & Stress: of Midlife
The grief of midlife is a sneaky bitch that no one warned you about. You’re just living your life when it hits: things are different. You are different.
Over a handful of decades now, the losses have quietly accumulated and they now weigh heavy. You’re dumbstruck that they’ll only accumulate further. Parents are aging and kids are growing up and somehow you feel both young and old at the same time.
Your awareness sharpens that all the paths not taken are now closed roads; that you can’t count on your body the way you used to; that you can’t count on time the way you used to. Suddenly it’s all palpably limited.
This awareness feels like a curse, because midlife is a contradiction: it’s full of indignities that live right alongside the joy of this life you’ve built for yourself. And how exactly are we to reconcile the two?
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: online therapy so you can easily fit getting help into your busy schedule; the ease of 24/7 online scheduling; and a secure patient portal to easily complete intake paperwork. Life’s hard enough; let’s let the stuff that can be easy be easy.
Helpful
My work with clients is engaging, dynamic, and collaborative. By keeping my caseload small enough, we have the space to create what you uniquely need in our work together. My approach isn’t rooted in surface-level quick fixes, but rather in the profound transformative opportunity of life’s hardest moments.
Authentic
My therapeutic approach is deeply relational. My clients and I have zero interest in a stuffy or formal relationship in therapy. We care about building a real relationship together that can fully support our deeply meaningful work together, often long-term, throughout and across different seasons of their lives.
Exclusively Offering Online Therapy
All the Benefits of In-Person Therapy, None of the Hassle
Useful Information
Online Therapy
All of my sessions are held virtually. 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
My rate reflects my commitment to provide sustainably excellent clinical care to each of my clients. I limit the number of clients I see so that we can do our best work together. Click below to learn more about your investment and my commitment to our work together.
Scheduling
I offer daytime appointments, Monday through Thursday. Sessions are 50 minutes and are initially scheduled either weekly or every-other week. The option to eventually transition to monthly appointments offers a valuable way to continue this profound work, and many of my clients and I end up working together long-term, across and throughout various seasons of their lives.
Working Together
My clients and I both prioritize cultivating a strong and authentic working relationship with one another. I intentionally limit the number of clients I work with so that we can engage in truly individualized care. My commitment to maintaining this small-enough caseload allows us to work together as a team to create a helpful and supportive space that is uniquely yours.
Reach Out and Get Started!
The first step is just a click away.
To get started, just click below to send me a message. I’ll get back to you within one business day and, from there, we can get any of your questions answered, make sure we’re a good fit to work together, and move forward with scheduling your first appointment.
I truly look forward to hearing from you!