About Rodney
Rev. Rodney Kerr is a licensed professional counselor with over three decades of experience in counseling and pastoral care. He practices in South Carolina and blends practical talk with goal-focused work to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and life transitions.
He uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions draw on acceptance and commitment principles, cognitive strategies, emotion-focused work, and client-centered listening. The aim is to identify strengths, set realistic goals, and try tools that make daily life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
Rodney's background includes seminary training with a Master of Divinity and postgraduate study in marriage and family therapy. That experience informs how he addresses communication problems, commitment issues, and family of origin concerns. He also brings coaching skills for career, parenting, and life-change planning.
In sessions he often uses assessment tools to clarify patterns and priorities. Examples include relationship inventories and personality measures that point toward concrete steps people can take. He combines those results with a conversational, practical style so clients leave with specific actions to try between meetings.
People who come for counseling typically want clearer communication, less anxiety, or help moving through a major life change. Rodney works with individuals and couples to set goals, test approaches, and adjust plans until something works better for day-to-day living.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It can help people dealing with anxiety, stress, or life transitions by shifting what matters most and building consistent action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, sleeping problems, and mood concerns.
Finding the right fit is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose approaches that match goals, personality, and daily life. That collaborative process allows methods to be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online work offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or distance constraints. Video calls let conversations unfold much like an in-person session, phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, manage follow-up, and keep momentum on agreed goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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