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

At the heart of our 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, attuned relationship. I aim to offer a space where you feel seen, understood, and emotionally held—without judgment or pressure. I am actively engaged, emotionally present, and responsive, because change happens when you don’t have to face difficult experiences alone.

Together, we pay close attention to what is happening between us as well as within you. This relational safety allows painful emotions, unmet needs, and old patterns to come into the open—where they can finally be processed and transformed.

Listening to Emotions and the Body

In AEDP, emotions are not problems to get rid of; they are meaningful signals that guide us toward healing. We gently track your emotional experience as it unfolds in the present moment, including the sensations in your body. This helps us move beyond insight alone and into real, 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 slow down to fully experience and integrate them, because these moments are essential for lasting change.

Completed Certificates and Trainings

• Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Year One through the Oklahoma Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (OSPS) 2004
• Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Year Two through OSPS
• Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Year Three through OSPS
• AEDP Level One Immersion Certificate, September 2021
• AEDP Level Two Essential Skills 1 Certificate, June 2022
• AEDP Level 3 (30 hours group supervision and 15 hours individual supervision) November 2024
• Seminar - Undoing Disempowerment: Cultivating Agency in AEDP™, February 2024
• Seminar - Advanced Skills: Memory Reconsolidation at Work Across States in AEDP: Portrayals and Metaprocessing, September 2024
• Seminar - Befriending the AEDP Triangles, December 2024
• Seminar - The Therapist as Organizing Other: Regulating and building self-structure in dysregulated clients through an AEDP lens, March 2025
• Seminar - Advanced Skills Course: Working with Disorganized Attachment: The Journey to Coherence and Connection, November 2025