Today we’d like to introduce you to Rebecca Robinson.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I’m a therapist. I’ve loved what I do from day one, but over the 15 years I’ve been practicing, I’ve learned that the people I serve best tend to be perfectionists learning to let loose, late bloomers, or couples comprised of one or more of the above. Growing up in a family where my parents, who were still healing from their own trauma, left my sister and I to kind of fend for ourselves, I developed a high achieving but overcontrolled and lonely coping style. Thanks to therapy, study, and much trial and error over the years, I now feel so much more “myself” while also at home with others. And now I pursue excellence, not perfection, which is boring and overrated anyway!
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Man, deep self-knowledge is hard! Learning to love and accept myself as a sensitive, neurodivergent introvert despite feeling undervalued and outmatched in many spaces was a serious challenge. It makes me sad when I think back on the years I lost to masking and self-criticism, and extremely grateful for the place I’m in now — confident and secure while also altogether less self-obsessed!
It’s also difficult to accept that cost is a barrier to serving many folks. I no longer take insurance because oy, long story, but taking my practice online has helped reduce overhead, and I find as many other ways as I can to keep therapy within reach for folks AND do my part to support my lovely family. I adore this work and am honored to be part of my clients’ transformation.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
I have an online/virtual therapy practice serving individual adults and couples all over California. I specialize in working with deep feelers and thinkers, people who are often gifted creatively and/or technically but who don’t feel quite at ease in their relationships, themselves, or the world at large. My clients are often talented, motivated folks with some blind and/or tender spots they have been wanting to address for a long time, and I am immensely proud to help with that. I am also known as a person who takes her work but not herself very seriously.
What’s next?
I need to take new headshots. Tough to strike that balance between professional and human. 😉
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