Rebecca Mitchell

The people who find their way to Rebecca Mitchell often arrive already fluent in their own patterns — they know the shape of what holds them back, and still can’t seem to move past it. That distance between understanding and actual change is the territory her work occupies. She helps adults in New York working through trauma, anxiety, depression, abuse, grief, and the kind of relational pain that keeps repeating itself regardless of how much self-awareness a person brings to it.

Mitchell uses EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and Cognitive Processing Therapy — approaches that work below the level of conscious reasoning, where the body and deeper self still carry old protective strategies that once made sense and now don’t. Before becoming a therapist she spent years as a special education teacher, then trained at Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work and worked at the VA PTSD clinic in New York. That background instilled a lasting respect for how much effort ordinary functioning can cost a person, and how much capacity for change tends to be present when someone is genuinely met rather than managed — something increasingly hard to find when most contact happens at a scroll’s distance.

Sessions are available in person in Manhattan and online throughout New York State. The fee is $250, with a free 15-minute consultation and monthly superbills provided automatically. Out-of-network reimbursement typically runs between 50 and 80 percent.