About Brett
Brett Rhoden is a licensed marriage and family therapist with fifty years of professional experience. He helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, relationship trouble, and problems with addiction. Brett aims to make the first step feel easier for someone who is unsure about reaching out.
Brett creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through without judgment. He focuses on clear, practical conversation that helps people understand what matters to them and how to move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize listening first, then working together on small, doable steps. His work covers a wide range of concerns including parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and attention difficulties. He also addresses topics such as abandonment, attachment issues, blended family challenges, and communication problems.
Brett approaches issues like anger, self-esteem, and control with patience and steady support. Therapy draws on a mix of methods to match each person’s needs. He uses approaches that help people notice thoughts and values, explore relationship patterns, and practice concrete skills for coping.
The process is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage. Brett practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English. He recognizes that getting started can be hard and encourages people to take that step at their own speed.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings, clarify what matters to them, and take small committed steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and early bonds to understand current struggles and improve emotional connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. This is a collaborative process where plans are adjusted as needed to match what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat may suit brief check-ins, and messaging supports short updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep regular contact when needed.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 50 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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