About Rhonda
Rhonda Bolden is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and motivation struggles. Rhonda aims to create a calm space where people can speak honestly and be heard without judgment.
Her approach centers on listening first and tailoring practical steps to each person. She uses methods that emphasize understanding how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning skills to manage strong emotions and to handle hard situations day to day. Rhonda helps people work through grief, life transitions, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, and career crossroads. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, or the aftermath of domestic violence and prejudice.
Clients dealing with mood disorders, postpartum struggles, ADHD, or self-harm behaviors may also find focused help. Her style is warm and straightforward. Rhonda encourages small, doable changes rather than big, sudden shifts.
She partners with each person to set goals and measure progress in ways that make sense to them. Sessions blend talk and practical tools such as mindfulness and behavior-based exercises. People who want a compassionate listener who also offers concrete strategies may appreciate her blend of empathy and action.
Practical approaches for online care
Rhonda uses Client-Centered Therapy to guide sessions with warmth and curiosity, helping people feel listened to and understood as they set goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice small behavior changes that improve mood and day-to-day functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that are useful for intense emotions and impulsive behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they check progress and adjust the plan when something isn’t working. This teamwork helps keep sessions focused and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent support while juggling family, work, or medical care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English