About Rhonda
Rhonda Duesterberg is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She supports people facing relationship strain, family conflict, grief, and trauma. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel heard and make practical changes.
She spends sessions listening without judgment and asking clear questions to understand what matters most. Rhonda uses tools from cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She encourages small, doable steps so change feels realistic and steady. Rhonda also draws on acceptance and commitment techniques to help clients clarify values and take action toward them. When emotions fluctuate, she brings in skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help with regulation and staying grounded.
Emotion-focused ideas guide her when relationship patterns need repair or deeper connection is the goal. Over nine years of practice, she has worked with people facing panic attacks, mood shifts, caregiver stress, aging concerns, and the aftermath of trauma. Rhonda explains options plainly and tailors methods to each person’s situation.
She aims to make therapy a practical part of daily life, not just a place for talking. Starting therapy with Rhonda means talking through immediate worries, learning tools to cope, and building a plan for next steps. She invites people to set goals together and tracks progress in ways that fit their routines.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Rhonda often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT focuses on practical strategies you can practice between sessions, such as experiments, thought records, and activity planning.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients clarify what matters most and take committed steps toward those values even when hard emotions appear. ACT pairs mindfulness and action-focused goals so work done in sessions translates to daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods together, and adjust based on what helps you meet your goals and fits your preferences.
Online therapy with Rhonda is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you work face to face when useful, phone sessions can be easier on low bandwidth or when you prefer not to be on camera, and chat or messaging is handy for quick check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into a busy routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Coaching
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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