- Emotionally-Focused Therapy
- Client-Centered methods
- Cognitive Behavioral tools
About Rhonda
Rhonda Bolden is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, motivation, self-esteem, and depression. Rhonda aims to make it easier for people to speak about difficult feelings and to begin practical change.
Her style is direct and person-focused. Sessions center on the client’s experience and the patterns that keep problems repeating. She listens for strong emotional reactions and helps name them so they become easier to handle.
Rhonda uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) alongside client-centered and cognitive tools. That means she helps people notice how emotion shapes interactions, then practices different responses. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness skills to teach distress-tolerance and present-moment awareness.
Typical concerns brought into sessions include intimacy issues, grief, coping with life changes, sleep struggles, career questions, and mood difficulties such as bipolar disorder. She also works with people affected by domestic violence, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and discrimination-related stress.
Rhonda explains steps and techniques in clear terms and practices collaborative problem solving. Sessions often include focused conversation, skill practice, and checking what actually changed between meetings. Her approach aims to make emotional patterns more understandable and more manageable over time.
How her approaches work in online sessions
Rhonda often combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with client-centered work and cognitive-behavioral techniques. EFT helps people identify and name core emotions that drive relationship patterns, which can be useful when emotions feel confusing or overwhelming. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a collaborative conversation where the client’s experience leads the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to see what helps.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Rhonda will work together with each client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. The plan can shift over time based on what the client finds most useful and what actually changes between sessions.
Please confirm current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-in conversations when needed, or offer a video meeting rather than travel to an office. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, emotion-focused conversations, and skill practice to the remote setting so therapy can fit into everyday life.
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Experience
5+ years
Listed in
Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, and related issues like grief and intimacy-related struggles.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy along with client-centered and cognitive approaches to help people name feelings and change interaction patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of professional experience as an Illinois LCPC.
Where is she licensed to practice?
She is licensed as an LCPC in Illinois and sees clients from that state.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the US work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment work?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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