About Rhonda
Rhonda Waller is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship strains, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. She brings a relational, attachment-focused perspective to sessions and emphasizes safety and understanding. Rhonda draws on nine years of clinical work in California to guide people toward steadier emotional ground.
She pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns. That perspective helps when someone struggles with abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, or control problems.
Background and approach
Rhonda also addresses concerns tied to family of origin, communication breakdowns, and the emotional fallout from divorce or separation. Rhonda has experience with sexual and intimacy concerns, including kink and alternative sex culture, mismatched desire, and sexual impacts of trauma. She also supports people coping with addiction, dissociation, caregiver stress, and the emptiness that sometimes follows major loss or life change.
Her approach is trauma-informed and relational in focus. Sessions aim to be practical and grounded. Rhonda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people learn new ways of relating, manage symptoms, and practice different responses in day-to-day life.
She centers the client’s goals and works at a pace that feels manageable. Rhonda offers therapy in English and practices in California as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She combines clinical experience with a respectful, nonjudgmental stance to help people reconnect with themselves and others.
Approaches that guide online work and how they help
Rhonda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on relationships and trauma. One common approach she relies on centers on attachment and relational patterns; it looks at how early connections shape current relationships and helps people practice new ways of relating. This can be useful for anxiety, codependency, and commitment or communication challenges.She also uses trauma-informed methods that help people process past hurts and reduce the ways those experiences influence daily life. These methods aim to decrease reactive responses, improve emotional regulation, and rebuild trust in relationships. They are often helpful for people dealing with abuse, dissociation, or intense fear responses.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, life circumstances, and preferences, then try techniques that feel like a good fit. Adjustments are common as therapy progresses to match changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different situations. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when life gets complicated.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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