About Rhonda
Rhonda Duesterberg is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, and life changes. She supports people facing relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is down-to-earth and practical, designed for people who need clear steps and steady support.
Rhonda keeps sessions focused and approachable. She encourages open conversation so feelings and thoughts can be talked about without judgment.
Background and approach
She blends practical tools with gentle listening to help people feel more capable day to day. Her work draws on methods like acceptance and commitment approaches, cognitive strategies, and emotionally-focused techniques. That mix helps with mood issues, panic, post-traumatic stress, and patterns that keep people stuck.
She also uses skills from dialectical behavior work to help with strong emotions and intense moments. Rhonda brings nine years of experience in behavioral health. She has worked with adults around midlife concerns, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, aging and geriatric issues, and recovery after disasters.
Her practice includes attention to loneliness, life purpose, guilt, and forgiveness. Rhonda talks plainly about goals and next steps in early sessions. She helps people set realistic actions and practices between meetings.
Many clients find the steady, task-focused style useful when life feels overwhelming and choices are unclear.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It encourages choosing actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and habits that keep problems going and teaches practical exercises to shift those patterns; it helps with panic, mood issues, and everyday worry. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding emotions in relationships and using that awareness to improve connection and intimacy.This therapist will work with each client to find the best fit. Choosing an approach is a collaborative process that depends on a person’s goals, comfort, and what feels most useful. Early sessions focus on what matters most and on the practical steps to try together.Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and face-to-face conversation matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, flexible exchanges during busy days. These options are meant to make therapy easier to fit into real life and to accommodate different needs and routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Coaching
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English