About Rebecca Flores, LPC
Hi! I’m Rebecca Flores.
I help highly sensitive (HSP), empathetic moms and professional women release the weight of trauma, calm attachment-related anxiety, and break free from people-pleasing, so they can reclaim their power, find inner peace, and confidently create a balanced, self-assured life.
Therapy and Counseling for HSP, Empathetic Moms and Professionals
I’m the founder and owner of Vita Counseling Center, offering individual therapy and counseling services to adult women.
I’m currently based in Texas, and licensed to practice in Texas, Oregon, and Arizona. I offer virtual online therapy to women across all three states.
Individual Therapy for:
More About You…
You’re running on empty and feeling drained.
You put others first to a fault. It’s hard to say no. You feel guilty all the time. You feel like you have to be perfect and please everyone.
You come second no matter what. You don’t want to be a pushover and you want to put yourself first but you feel selfish if you do that. You don’t say when things bother you, until they really bother you, and you hold things inside.
Growing up was difficult.
Life wasn’t always as calm and nurturing as you needed. You were often told you were too sensitive or too something. This type of pressure made you feel like you didn’t belong. It’s not that you don’t like being a unique person or that you’re trying to fit in, but that you just long to feel like you belong.
You’ve been through a lot to the point where you’ve sometimes felt othered.
Somehow, through it all, you’ve been able to push through. Until now. You’re wondering why it’s so tough right now.
You don’t like conflict and know that boundaries are important but you’re having trouble keeping them because you don’t want to be confrontational.
Your energy is wiped, you’re feeling like you’re just not good enough no matter what you do. You don’t want to care what others think, but you don’t feel like you’re good enough for others either.
You’ve Hidden Things Well
No one can tell because outside looking in, you hold it all together. But it’s getting harder and harder to do. Something has changed making it harder for you to keep things at bay.
You feel like you’ve lost the happy moments and vibrance, and your confidence is at an all time low. Your mind is working overtime, leaving you exhausted. You’re not sleeping and you feel like a burden. The guilt is eating you up inside and you don’t even always know or understand where that’s coming from.
You just wish you could turn it all off and unplug from what’s happening.
I’m here to help.
Being a deep thinker and feeler and highly sensitive woman is an unspoken language all on its own, and I know what you’re going through as an HSP. What you’re going through isn’t easy and can make you feel like you’re in a race where you just can’t compete. It can make you feel isolated and alone.
But you can feel better. You’re not alone. You can get back on track.
More About the Clients I Work with
My clients come to therapy at various stages of their lives. You’re noticing how trauma and difficult life experiences have impacted you now because you’re a mother. You’re also noticing how trauma has impacted you because of your profession.
You’ve noticed your relationships are suffering and know the reason is in part, due to your attachment style and past experiences and trauma.
What I’ve noticed in all clients who come to me for therapy is that they just want to feel better, just like you. You want to know there is hope. You want to know that change in your life is possible.
There is hope and change is possible no matter where you’re at.
Clients who come to me are willing to do the work, even if it means having to get to the root of it all. Just like you, they know it will take work and are willing to do it even though it’s hard.
I welcome all women to my practice and therapy, and am inclusive and culturally sensitive. If you don’t feel you share these values, we are probably not the best fit for each other and that’s okay!
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I offer online virtual therapy and counseling services to women who are deep thinkers and feelers across Texas, Oregon, and Arizona.
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I specialize in helping Highly Sensitive (HSP) mothers and professionals who are deeply empathetic and dealing with resurfaced trauma, PTSD, attachment issues, and people pleasing tendencies. They notice these issues are impacting them in their roles as a professional, as a mother, and also in their relationships.
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Women who come to therapy with me are willing to do the work, even though it’s hard.
They know that issues are deeper rooted and trail back, impacting them in the present. They’re willing to explore that and also work in between our sessions to get the most out of their therapy.
What will therapy be like?
Therapy is personal and as a therapist for HSP, empathetic mothers and professional women, I want you to feel like therapy is time and space just for you.
Therapy is a place for you to gain a sense of control over the anxiety and overwhelm. It's a place where you can get back a sense of calm in your life.
In the past, clients have said they feel heard and understood which has helped them begin their transformation of healing.
They've also shared they find my approach to be warm and steady and benefit from the results they experience in therapy.
I am honest, yet gentle in my approach. You'll always have a say in therapy but I also know when clients just need me to step in. I strongly support my clients in their work, and make no room for judgment in sessions.
I know how much you’ve been judging yourself enough already.
Past clients who've had success with me in therapy are those who know there isn't one specific therapy, coping skill, or medication that will be a cure.
How Long Will Therapy Take?
It's natural to want relief now. Why wouldn't you? We can all search the internet for coping skills but therapy with me isn't just about coping skills. Coping skills have their place and time but my approach to therapy is at a deeper level. I'd rather you get to the heart of things now, so this won't constantly return.
Therapy won’t take any longer than it needs to and will only last as long as you need, to complete your therapy goals.
What to Expect From Therapy Sessions
Women who reach out to me are unique people, even if they share commonalities. But clients all share these very similar goals:
To feel better about themselves
Learn more about themselves
Gain strength, resolve, and insight
Learn and develop skills to use in the here-and-now
Be better internally resourced
Have healthier relationships
Be free from unhealthy patterns
Have a more meaningful life
The most effective therapy and counseling begins with the right therapeutic fit. When you feel comfortable in therapy and at ease, that’s when you’ll feel you can open up about your feelings, thoughts, and experiences.
Fit is first and you setting your own therapy goals to help you:
Recognize patterns and how they impact you
Restore new meaning in your life
Make connections to patterns and experiences
Share and explore your emotions and thoughts
Process trauma
Learn how to get through difficult life transitions and change
Strengthen relationships
Repair attachment wounds
Navigate life as a Highly Sensitive Person
Challenge yourself to take action to create change you want in your life
Therapy is helpful for many different struggles and to better cope with issues including anxiety, stress, depression, life transitions, old attachment wounds, sexual trauma, childhood trauma, people pleasing, grief and loss, PTSD & trauma, complex trauma, the effects of autoimmune disorders, and relationship issues.
Sessions will be tailored to you specifically.
Therapy consists of 50-minute sessions where I will listen, be curious in asking questions, help you reframe experiences, and make observations. I’ll also help you with strengthening problem-solving skills, provide you with insight and feedback, information, and psychoeducation on relevant topics pertinent to you, and provide you with tools and resources.
To get the most out of therapy and counseling, you may sometimes be asked to reflect on sessions and bring anything connected that came up in between sessions, to your next session. You may be asked to reflect and note any patterns you notice in between sessions and thoughts and feelings that arise. I may also recommend you practice certain skills or exercises that could help, or journal what you notice in between our sessions.
How Therapy Can Help You
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Emotion Regulation & Stress Management
Therapy provides tools to manage overwhelming emotions, cope with anxiety, and reduce stress through evidence-based tools and therapies.
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Improved Self-Esteem & Confidence
Counseling helps women challenge negative self-beliefs, develop self-compassion, and build confidence in personal and professional areas of life.
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Healing from Past Trauma & Experiences
Therapy offers a safe space to process past trauma, including childhood wounds, attachment trauma, past abuse, grief, promoting emotional healing and resilience.
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Stronger Relationships & Communication Skills
Women can learn how to set healthy boundaries, express their needs effectively, and navigate relationships with greater clarity and emotional intelligence.
My Therapeutic Style & Approach
I’m a spirited, inquisitive, open-minded, warm-hearted therapist who’s also a fellow HSP.
I help women struggling with overwhelming worry, anxiety, sadness and depression, attachment pain, feelings of guilt and shame, grief, unhealthy patterns, difficulty in their relationships, not feeling good enough, people pleasing, and burden from past trauma.
What makes me different, is I’ve been told I can make almost anyone feel at ease and my sense of humor helps, despite the nature of what brings women to therapy. Previous clients have also shared that it’s easy for them to let their guard down with me.
Please know there is nothing you can bring to therapy that will shock me.
I want you to be able to be your authentic self, comfortable, not feel judged in any way, and feel seen, understood, and heard, because I know how vulnerable it can be to be to bring yourself to therapy.
I also want you to know that therapy is about what you hope to accomplish in terms of your goals, not anyone else’s, including that of the therapist.
Therapy will be personal to you because no two people are alike. We will work together in a creative way, and develop a plan based on your therapy goals, that is tailored specifically to you, your growth, and healing.
I believe in:
People. You have the ability to work through difficult experiences, grow, and change. I believe that even though therapy takes time, work, and effort, if patient, it can happen. I see it happen all the time, and get to witness the transformation in clients. It takes courage to seek out therapy and finding the right therapist can be laborious. But you can find the right therapist because there are so many of us out there.
I value:
Compassion, empathy, integrity, humility, tolerance, determination, and treating others with kindness and respect.
I’m about:
Inclusion. Cultural sensitivity. Compassion. Diversity. Love for humanity.
In my free time, you can find me:
Spending time with my people, hiking with my sweet dogs, hanging with my rescue cats, going to Barre, yoga, and Pilates classes, and taking art classes!
Daily rituals:
It’s important to me to try to find time to recharge in the quiet. I try to find time to journal, drink some good tea, practice mindfulness and meditation, and take space to find out what I’m grateful for because life is noisy for HSPs, and the world is ever-changing.
Meet the Team
Office Manager
Marketing
Receptionist
Billing
Administrative Assistant
EDUCATION, CREDENTIALS & CERTIFICATIONS
University of Texas at San Antonio, Master of Arts in Counseling, 2012
Our Lady of the Lake University, Bachelor of Science, 1999
Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas
License #79280
Licensed Professional Counselor Oregon License #C5532
Licensed Professional Counselor Arizona #22067
EMDR Certified Therapist-EMDR International Association
UPenn Center for the Treatment & Study of Anxiety 2020: Certified Prolonged Exposure Therapist
SSTI - Strong Star Training Initiative: Prolonged Exposure Therapist
Former Research Therapist: Stanford University School of Medicine: Telehealth 2.0 Evaluating Effectiveness and Engagement Strategies for CPT-Text for PTSD
Brainspotting Training
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy & Trauma-Informed Practice Training
Clinical Hypnosis Levels 1 & 2 Training
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
UT Health San Antonio Strong Star Network
EMDR International Association
How I Can Support You
Trauma TherapyPTSD and complex trauma therapy will help you rise above challenges and start moving toward your ideal life with less stress and more calm. You'll gain the practical tools you need to lower your anxiety and finally resolve issues from the past.
EMDREMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy) allows you to work through a traumatic memory and decrease shame, guilt, sadness, anxiety, fear, negative thoughts, and low self-esteem attached to it.
My Specialties
Anxiety Anxiety therapy can help you master the overwhelm, reclaim your inner peace, and step boldly into a life of confidence, clarity, and freedom.
Attachment Issues Therapy for attachment issues can help you replace unhelpful patterns, cultivate deep, secure connections, and step into relationships with renewed confidence and inner wisdom.
Childhood Trauma Childhood trauma therapy can help you overcome the shadows of your past, mend deeply rooted wounds, and step into a life of empowerment, self-love, and unshakeable confidence.
Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)Learn how therapy can help you transform your sensitivity into your greatest strength-cultivating resilience, finding calm in the chaos, and creating a life that truly aligns with your deepest needs and gifts.
People Pleasing Therapy for people pleasing can help you overcome the cycle of people pleasing, set healthy boundaries, and embrace your true worth without the guilt and fear.
Sexual Trauma Sexual trauma therapy can help you reclaim your voice, rebuild trust, and transform your pain into a profound sense of healing, and self-worth.
Ready to get started?
Let's work together!Schedule a complimentary 20-minute phone consultation today.