Rebis Counseling & Hypnosis, LLC

What To Expect

What therapy with me actually looks like

Therapy here is not a checklist. It’s an agreed-upon space to notice, feel, and move. My role is to be present, to notice what’s alive between us, and to invite your material to reveal itself slowly, sometimes awkwardly, often surprisingly. Below is a practical guide to what happens in sessions, what I ask of clients, and how progress is tracked.

Initial Session

  • Intake & orientation: we review paperwork, goals, and safety planning.
  • We talk about what brought you here and what would feel different if therapy helped.
  • I’ll ask about immediate needs (safety, medication, urgent stressors) and work preferences.
  • We’ll collaboratively build an initial treatment focus.

Ongoing Sessions

  • The following list is not exhaustive, therapy is specifically tailored to your needs.
  • Presence-based listening and reflection.
  • Socratic and clarifying questioning.
  • Experiential invitations (brief somatic noticing, therapeutic tasks, metaphoric or symbolic exploration).
  • Systems mapping: noticing patterns across your relationships, work, and inner life.

How Change Usually Happens

  • Small shifts that accumulate—more clarity, different choices, less reactivity, more authenticity. There may be destabilizing moments; that’s part of meaningful work.
  • Clients often report that they don’t know what exactly happened, just that they feel better and no loner feel stuck.
  • It’s common to experience deep change and notice rather immediately, but it’s also common to change and not really notice until much later.

What I Expect From You

  • Honesty, presence, and a willingness.
  • Commitment to scheduling and communication for missed sessions.
  • Openness to the process, even when it gets messy or confusing.

What I Won’t Do

  • I don’t do CBT, DBT, EMDR, ACT, or ART.
  • If you want a manualized, step-by-step approach, there are great clinicians who specialize in that, I’m just not one of them.
  • I offer therapy that doesn’t fit neatly in a manual, because neither do you.

If you like this way of working, request a free 15-minute consultation to talk.