Rebecca Waterston

Rebecca Waterston is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington (WA LMHC LH61251153) with 10 years of professional counseling experience and hundreds of proud and happier clients. She works with a wide age range, from young teens who are building self-understanding and self-esteem to older adults coping with devastating losses, grief, and significant life changes.

Anxiety is a common reason people seek Rebecca’s support. She frequently addresses sleep difficulties and depressive symptoms that accompany high stress and anxiety. In therapy she guides clients to examine their inner experience, identify what can change, build healthier habits, and develop greater respect and care for themselves and others.

Relationship and communication struggles also bring many people to her office. Rebecca sees how unhelpful coping patterns often originate in early family life, and she helps couples and partners learn new ways to relate that break those cycles.

Creating a trusting, safe environment is central to her approach so thoughts and feelings can be expressed without fear or judgment. She also provides trauma-focused work, whether for a single traumatic event or complex trauma linked to family addiction, neglect, emotional abuse, mental illness, or the death of a sibling or parent. These experiences can erode confidence and self-esteem, making decision-making and identifying healthy versus toxic relationships more difficult.

Rebecca supports clients in doing important deep work to change maladaptive patterns, develop effective coping strategies, and shift unhelpful thinking. Part of that process often involves learning to honor differences in partners and friends while increasing self-respect.

She is attentive to the pressures facing teens today, including bullying and social media-driven comparisons that undermine self-esteem and personal confidence. Rebecca also works with individuals recovering from addiction and with their families, teaching ways to feel less trapped or driven by a loved one’s substance use and to begin living with healthier emotional boundaries.

Starting therapy requires courage, and Rebecca encourages those ready to begin. She focuses on steady, visible change so clients can grow, ask constructive questions, and gain pride in themselves as they make progress week by week. Hurray for getting started!!!