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Rebecca Andersen, LMFT

Based in Minnesota Online sessions

Calm, practical support for parents and partners

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Years in practice
21
Credentials
LMFT
Licensed in
Minnesota
Languages
English
Focus
Stress, Anxiety
Focus
Relationship issues
Focus
Grief
About

About Rebecca

Rebecca Andersen is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping parents and individuals handle stress, relationships, grief, and parenting challenges. She combines practical conversation with gentle guidance to help people manage anxiety, depression, anger, and life changes. Rebecca writes and listens with a calm, steady presence so clients can talk through what matters most to them.

With 21 years of clinical experience, Rebecca draws on approaches that help people change unhelpful thoughts, make sense of their stories, and strengthen emotional bonds.

Background and approach

She uses Client-Centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete tools for reframing thoughts and changing behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift patterns in close relationships.

Rebecca also uses Mindfulness and Narrative approaches to help clients notice how they respond to stress and to rewrite troubling personal narratives. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical, with ideas you can try between meetings. She frames goals around clearer communication, steadier mood, and better day-to-day coping.

Clients in Minnesota find her straightforward and empathetic. Rebecca works with a wide range of concerns including family conflict, intimacy issues, caregiving stress, and recovery from loss or trauma. She supports people facing career strain, body image struggles, divorce and separation, and feelings of isolation.

To begin, she asks clients to describe the problems they want to solve and the outcomes they hope for. Rebecca then helps set short-term, concrete steps that fit each person’s life and schedule.

Focus areas and approaches

What Rebecca works with

Everything Rebecca lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Rebecca helps people with.

Approaches Rebecca lists

Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.

Online support

Approaches that translate well to online work

Rebecca combines Client-Centered therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address parenting stress, relationship patterns, anxiety, and mood concerns. Client-Centered therapy focuses on listening deeply and following what the client brings, which helps parents feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers clear tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors between sessions, which is useful for day-to-day parenting challenges and anxiety.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rebecca will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adapt methods to fit those needs. She encourages experimenting with strategies and checking in about what feels most helpful so the plan evolves over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy easier to schedule around busy family life. Video is helpful for face-to-face connection and working through interaction patterns, while phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is low. Live chat and messaging let clients check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges when a full session isn’t practical. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible for people juggling parenting and work.
Questions

Questions people ask about Rebecca

What kinds of problems does Rebecca focus on?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns plus grief, trauma, intimacy issues, anger, and career or life-change challenges.

How would you describe her therapy style?

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions combine talk, thought-focused strategies, and attention to emotions to create practical next steps.

What is her clinical background and experience?

Rebecca is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 21 years of experience working with individuals and people facing family and relationship struggles.

Where is she licensed and based?

She holds a Minnesota LMFT credential and practices from Minnesota as described in her profile.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What formats are available for online sessions?

Therapy can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How does cost and payment work?

Session cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the steps to start working with her?

Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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