About Rhonda
Rhonda McEntire is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Her work often centers on rebuilding self-esteem and coping with major life changes.
Rhonda uses straightforward, person-focused methods in sessions. She listens and helps people set small, practical goals. Many clients work on coping skills for mood swings, worry, or substance use, and she also provides coaching-style support when helpful.
Background and approach
Her practice pays attention to the impact of past family experiences and relationship patterns. Rhonda helps people untangle codependency, family of origin issues, and feelings of emptiness or guilt. She also offers support for those facing divorce, adoption and foster care concerns, or fatherhood issues.
Chronic illness and chronic pain are included in her experience. She assists people who need to adapt to long-term health challenges and the emotional strain they bring. Rhonda also works with people dealing with dissociation, control issues, and recovery from domestic violence.
Her approach draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Sessions aim to help people notice patterns, practice new skills, and make changes that fit their daily life. Rhonda practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Rhonda uses client-centered therapy to place the person's experience at the center of sessions. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and working from each person's goals to decide what to focus on. It helps when people need support processing emotions or gaining clarity about their priorities.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT offers concrete strategies to manage anxiety, mood shifts, and unhelpful behaviors by practicing new ways of thinking and acting. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed; these provide step-by-step tools for managing intense feelings and improving relationships.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan over time so the work fits daily life and preferences.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different needs. Video lets people read expressions and use interactive worksheets. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits into a busy day. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and a written record of guidance to review later.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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