Rebecca Wagner, LMHC

Rebecca Wagner is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in upstate New York with 18 years of experience supporting adolescents and families. Her work spans a range of challenges including depression, adolescent anxiety, parenting and co-parenting concerns, self-harming urges, trauma, self-esteem struggles, borderline personality disorder, living with a family member who has persistent mental illness, and the transition to adulthood.

She uses a client-centered approach that treats each person as the expert on their own life while offering practical tools to support change. Rebecca is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and she integrates these modalities with other strategies to teach coping skills, emotion regulation, and problem-solving.

Rebecca values the telehealth format because it allows for more frequent contacts and brief check-ins, which support in-the-moment skills teaching. Counseling with her is described as a space to focus on a client’s needs and concerns. She expresses eagerness to meet new clients and learn about their unique situations, and notes that while daytime appointment slots may be limited on her public schedule she prefers clients to schedule to maintain balance with other responsibilities.