About Rodney
Rodney "Rod" Mayes is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of clinical experience. He holds a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and practices in Utah as an LMFT. Rod often helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship strain.
He uses a warm, interactive style in sessions. Conversations are respectful and straightforward. He avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on practical steps toward change.
Rod tailors sessions to each person's needs.
Background and approach
He combines conversational listening with goal-focused tools. That can include looking at thoughts and behaviors, family patterns, or personal stories to find different ways forward. He has worked with people experiencing trauma and emotional abuse.
He has also spent recent years helping adolescents who struggle with pre-adoption trauma. Rod often addresses issues like self-esteem, career stress, and problems with commitment or communication. In therapy he aims to help people move from being stuck in past patterns toward a more satisfying future.
He will map out a plan with clear steps and adjust it as progress is made. His book, From Someday to Success, describes his view that change is possible and practical.
How Rod’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Rod uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that fit well for online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people lead conversations about what matters to them; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can be practiced between sessions.He also draws on Narrative Therapy to help people reframe their personal stories and see different possibilities for their lives. That approach can reduce shame and open up new choices when someone feels stuck in a single narrative about themselves.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Rod will collaborate with the person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. He frames the process as a team effort and adapts plans as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make it easier to schedule consistent sessions and keep momentum between meetings. Video lets you read facial cues, phone requires less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, and messaging or chat can suit quick check-ins or when writing out thoughts feels helpful. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit into work, school, or family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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