About Ronda
Ronda Russell is a licensed clinical social worker with over 33 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She is based in New York and brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions. Ronda focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.
She works with concerns such as addiction, depression, bipolar challenges, grief, and trauma. Relationship and family stresses are part of her practice, as are parenting struggles, sleep problems, anger, and issues with self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career transitions, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and caregiving strain. Ronda uses several therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions center on the client and their story while also teaching skills such as reframing thoughts and building small, doable habits.
She draws on mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to reduce immediate distress and move toward concrete goals. People can expect a direct but warm conversation that focuses on real-life steps. Ronda aims to listen without judgment and to help clients try new ways of coping.
She emphasizes collaboration and practical change rather than long lectures. Her background includes long-term clinical work with adults who face complex life transitions and ongoing stress. Over decades she has worked to blend listening with skill-building so people leave sessions with clear next steps.
Ronda’s approach is steady, experienced, and centered on helping people reclaim more balance in daily life.
How Ronda’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person and their priorities. The therapist listens actively and follows the client’s lead to understand what matters most and what feels most urgent. This approach helps when someone needs steady support and validation while sorting out next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical tools to notice unhelpful thinking and to test new behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, mood struggles, sleep problems, and coping with daily stressors.
Mindfulness Therapy uses attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. It helps people settle in the moment and notice patterns without getting caught up in them. This can be helpful for anxiety, anger, and managing cravings or strong emotions.
Choosing an approach happens together. The therapist will ask about your goals, daily routine, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she will suggest methods to try and adjust them based on how you respond so the plan fits your life and needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you have face-to-face conversation and see visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins and flexible, ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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