Rebecca Waterston, LMHC

Rebecca Waterston is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Washington with 10 years of professional counseling experience and hundreds of proud and happier clients. She works with a wide age range, from young teens struggling with self-understanding and low self-esteem to older adults facing devastating losses, grief, and major life transitions.

Many people seek Rebecca's help for anxiety, often accompanied by sleep problems and depressive symptoms. Her approach encourages exploration from the inside out - examining what is known, what can change, and how a person can grow while learning to offer more respect and care to themselves and to others in their lives.

Relationship and communication difficulties are common reasons couples and partners come to therapy. Rebecca addresses the ineffective coping patterns that frequently originate in early family experiences and helps clients recognize and shift those learned responses.

Trauma work is another focus, whether addressing a single traumatic event or complex trauma related to family addiction, neglect, emotional abuse, mental illness, or the death of a close family member. These experiences can erode confidence and self-esteem and make it harder to make sound decisions or identify healthy relationships. Rebecca guides clients through meaningful, in-depth work to change maladaptive patterns, build more effective coping skills, and shift unhelpful thinking.

She also supports teens navigating bullying and the pressures of social media, and assists people recovering from addiction along with their families, helping them feel less trapped and move toward healthier functioning. Rebecca creates a trusting, nonjudgmental environment for clients to share thoughts and feelings and emphasizes steady, practical progress so people can notice change week by week.