Rebecca Skippen

Bio

Rebecca Skippen is a Registered Social Worker with extensive experience in supporting individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents facing various challenges and stressors. She has expertise in addressing a wide range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, substance abuse issues, separation and divorce, relationship breakdowns, behavioral challenges, life transitions, and complex family dynamics.

Rebecca holds a Master’s degree in Social Work with a specialization in working with children and families and has extensive experience supporting families, couples, and individuals through various challenges and complexities. In her practice, Rebecca employs a range of therapeutic modalities, including Client-Centered Therapy (CCT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Play Therapy, Motivational-Interviewing, and Holistic Therapy, with a particular focus on mindfulness and relaxation techniques. When working with families navigating relationship breakdowns, Rebecca integrates Play Therapy, Role Play Therapy, and Behavioral Therapy to foster positive parent-child relationships. Her approach is grounded in family systems theory and attachment theory, guiding families to identify patterns, behaviors, and conflict areas. Rebecca’s practice is characterized by empowerment, trauma-informed care, and anti-oppressive principles. Recognizing the uniqueness of each family, couple and individual, she tailors her approach to meet their specific needs, ensuring a supportive and fulfilling journey. With a patient, empathetic, and non-judgmental demeanor, Rebecca creates a safe space for her clients, empowering them to problem-solve and enact positive change.

As a child and family therapist, Rebecca uses a family-centered approach to ensure the entire family is connected and communicating to resolve conflicts and overcome obstacles. She supports large, diverse families with intricate goals, such as relationship repair and rebuilding, parenting strategies, family communication skills, coping mechanisms, and addressing the impacts of separation and divorce on both parents and children. Rebecca focuses on ensuring healthy parent-child relationships, developing strategies for managing behavioral issues, and fostering effective communication and understanding in co-parenting relationships. She understands the intricacies of separation, co-parenting, and blended families and will guide and support families in developing open and effective communication to navigate and overcome the changes and difficulties they may face.

Rebecca provides a safe space for children and adolescents to explore their thoughts and feelings and learn new skills and strategies to manage various life stressors. She connects with children and youth, creating an environment where they feel heard, safe, and understood. Rebecca collaborates with families to set collective goals, such as managing stress, anxiety, and depression; processing and expressing emotions healthily; improving communication and social skills; addressing school-related challenges; reframing thoughts and experiences; self-esteem and confidence building; enhancing problem-solving abilities; and developing emotional regulation skills. Rebecca uses numerous therapeutic techniques, including play therapy, art therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy, to meet the unique needs of each child and family. She also works closely with parents, offering guidance and support to create a positive home environment and collaborates with schools to ensure the child’s educational and social needs are met.

Rebecca also has significant experience working with couples in a therapeutic environment. She helps couples identify their relationship goals, understand obstacles and barriers, and develop effective skills to enhance their relationship. Rebecca often utilizes Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which focuses on the emotional connection between partners and aims to strengthen their emotional attachment and overall well-being. In her role as a couple’s therapist, Rebecca supports couples in improving and learning new communication skills, resolving conflict, set attainable goals, strength and rebuild trust and intimacy and facilitate the exploration of underlying emotions. Rebecca navigates couples towards identifying unhelpful patterns that are leading to a disconnect and restructuring healthier emotional responses, all while employing the individual strengths of both partners within the relationship. Overall, Rebecca is dedicated to helping couples build stronger, healthier, and more fulfilling relationships through compassionate and evidence-based practices.

In her work with individuals, Rebecca is fully engaged and present, working collaboratively to set and achieve personal goals while providing guidance, support, and practical tools that will help individuals create meaningful change. Rebecca completes thorough assessments to understand clients’ needs and develops treatment plans to ensure goals and needs are effectively being met. Rebecca helps individuals navigate various challenges, including life transitions, trauma, stress, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, career development, and childhood experiences, while examining both current and past behavioral patterns. Her approach focuses on fostering deeper self-understanding and connection, encouraging clients to explore and express their thoughts and emotions, and using healthy coping tools. Rebecca also supports clients in reconstructing unhelpful thoughts to enhance self-awareness, emotional insight, and personal growth that will empower individuals to live more fulfilling lives.

Rebecca is driven by her passion for helping others, she is committed to making a positive impact in the lives of those she supports. She is renowned for her dedication and skill in empowering families, children, couples and individuals to overcome challenges and build healthy, enjoyable lives.