My Approach to Helping
Welcome! I’m Rebecca Snyder. I understand that life’s transitions, finding meaning, and managing chronic pain can be challenging, to say the least. If you're reading this, I first want you to know that you are not alone. I offer a warm, nonjudgmental environment to explore these challenges together.
Using evidence-based practices like DBT, IFS, EMDR, and CBT, I tailor our work to your unique needs, whether facing life transitions, relationship issues, or recovery from trauma and addiction. We’ll build a toolkit to manage these challenges, process what led you here, and ultimately enhance your innate strengths.
In our work together, we’ll use DBT modules, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, to help you feel more grounded. If you're exhausted, burnt out, and ready to try something new, I'd love to explore your experience together, and we can create a path forward. Healing is possible, even if it feels out of reach right now.
Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With
In my work with both teens and adults, I bring a trauma-informed, relational approach to help clients explore the root causes of distress, not just the symptoms. My training and experience have equipped me to support people navigating intense emotions, complex relational dynamics, and the lasting effects of trauma.
I am particularly skilled at working with:
- Trauma and PTSD, including survivors of assault, abuse, and interpersonal violence
- Anxiety, chronic worry, and the physical symptoms that often come with both
- Relationship challenges and couples conflict using Gottman-informed strategies
- Boundaries, people-pleasing, and patterns that show up in relationships
- Emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills (DBT-based)
- Childhood trauma and family-of-origin issues
- Survivors of domestic violence, including teens and adults
- Identity exploration and the process of building a stronger sense of self
I strive to create a space where clients feel safe enough to do deep work and supported enough to take risks. Whether you're looking to heal from past experiences or make sense of what?s happening in the present, therapy can be a place to process, rebuild, and grow.