About Rochelle
Rochelle Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and a calm, interactive presence to sessions. Rochelle focuses on anxiety among many everyday challenges, and she aims to make therapy feel straightforward and useful.
She often helps people who are dealing with stress, depression, trauma, addiction, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and relationship strain. Rochelle listens first, then works with each person to choose practical steps that fit their life.
Background and approach
She avoids labels and approaches each session with respect and compassion. Rochelle commonly uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in the room. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and build different habits.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness exercises are part of her toolkit for managing strong emotions and increasing moment-to-moment awareness. Her experience includes supporting people facing grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, caregiver stress, and career transitions. She also addresses concerns tied to adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment, blended family dynamics, and chronic illness or pain.
Rochelle offers a collaborative approach to problem solving. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical strategies, and small steps that add up to meaningful change. She aims to help people feel more capable of handling life’s ups and downs.
How counseling approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead to identify goals and priorities. In online sessions this means conversations are shaped by what matters most to the person, whether sorting through anxiety or relationship concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce distress. Online work can include brief worksheets, thought records, and homework between sessions to practice new skills. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that are useful for strong feelings and relationship struggles; these skills translate well to coaching-style practice during video calls or messaging.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then try strategies that fit their day-to-day life. If something isn't working, the plan is adjusted together rather than sticking to one set method.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use therapeutic tools where they matter most.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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