About Rekeeshella
Rekeeshella Elder helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family tension, grief, and low self-esteem. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with nine years of experience.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and straightforward. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and individuals.
She listens without judgment and adapts conversations to each person's needs. Sessions focus on real problems - improving communication, managing overwhelming feelings, and finding small changes that make daily life easier.
She draws from a mix of evidence-based methods to match what a client wants to work on. Rekeeshella uses tools that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and shift toward actions that matter to them.
She also supports clients who are dealing with attachment wounds, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, or complicated grief. Practical strategies and clear steps are a regular part of her work.
Her style is warm and respectful, with an emphasis on building trust and clarity. She helps people identify patterns from their family of origin and plan different ways of relating.
Clients who struggle with codependency, control issues, or communication problems will find focused, goal-oriented conversation. Rekeeshella works with people coping with divorce, domestic violence fallout, abandonment fears, or emptiness.
She offers help around commitment worries, co-morbidity, and dealing with natural or human-caused disasters. Her aim is to support steady, realistic progress over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and low motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which is often helpful for anxiety and mood concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on patterns of emotion and connection in close relationships and can help with relationship and attachment issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That conversation guides which methods are used and how sessions are structured, so the plan fits the client’s life and aims.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video can support face-to-face interaction, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat and messaging can work for quick check-ins or people who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English