Who I Am

Welcome.  I am Rebecca Thompson I help women and men move toward authentic connection with themselves and others.  If you have ever felt alone, overwhelmed with emotions or underwhelmed by emotional experience,  I can help.  Maybe you have felt confused by emotions and avoid feelings through staying busy or using your phone for distraction.  You have come to the right place.

I am an AEDP therapist.  You will find my approach warm, engaging, and interactive.  You and I will work together in collaboration to help you move through difficult experiences and toward connection with your strengths.  I will often ask for feedback on how you are experiencing our work together.  This allows us to continually fine tune our process.   

I was drawn to becoming a therapist from my lived experiences, some of those painful and some of those connected and safe.  Being actively engaged in the process of “Becoming” enlivens me and fuels my work.  I remember as a child riding in the car and watching the people in the cars as they passed by. On one particular trip, I recall smiling at a woman driving beside me.  She smiled back with such inviting joy on her face.  The rest of that trip I smiled at each person with whom I could make eye contact.  What I wasn’t fully able to articulate at the time, but I grasped experientially is the positive impact we can have on another human.  

Through my own moments of being understood, accepted, and helped to move through emotional distress, I see the healing action of therapy differently than I did early in my career.  Experiential and relational therapy creates the conditions for transformation.  You will find a capacity in yourself for growth, healing and “Becoming.”

I look forward to connecting with you and accompanying you on your journey.  Book a consulation call below.

I see therapy as a collaborative and deeply human process grounded in safety, authenticity, and hope. In AEDP, therapy is not something I do to you—it is something we do together. We move at a pace that respects your nervous system, your history, and your inner wisdom.

This approach is especially helpful for people healing from trauma, attachment wounds, or experiences that have created shame or disconnection from their authentic self.

At the heart of this work is the belief that you already have an innate capacity for healing, growth, and connection. My role is to help create the conditions where that capacity can emerge and strengthen.

A Safe and Supportive Relationship

Healing happens in the context of a safe and attuned relationship. I strive to create a space where you feel seen, understood, and emotionally supported—without judgment or pressure.

I remain actively engaged and emotionally present because meaningful change often happens when you no longer have to face difficult experiences alone. Together we pay attention to what is happening within you and between us, allowing painful emotions, unmet needs, and old relational patterns to come into the open where they can be processed and transformed.

Listening to Emotions and the Body

In AEDP, emotions are not problems to eliminate; they are meaningful signals that guide us toward healing. We gently track your emotional experience as it unfolds in the present moment, including sensations in the body.

This helps us move beyond insight alone and into deeper, lived change.

When difficult emotions arise, we approach them with curiosity and compassion, staying close to what feels manageable. When positive emotions emerge—such as relief, pride, tenderness, or joy—we take time to fully experience and integrate them because these moments help create lasting transformation.

My approach to therapy is shaped by ongoing training in experiential, attachment-based, and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

Level One Immersion Certificate – 2021

Level Two Essential Skills – 2022

Level Three Certification Training – 2024

Advanced AEDP Trainings include:

• Undoing Disempowerment: Cultivating Agency in AEDP

• Memory Reconsolidation at Work Across States in AEDP

• Befriending the AEDP Triangles

• The Therapist as Organizing Other

• Working with Disorganized Attachment: The Journey to Coherence and Connection

I also completed three years of training in Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy through the Oklahoma Society for Psychoanalytic Studies.