About Rodney
Rev. Rodney Kerr offers practical, goal-focused counseling rooted in relationship work and life transitions. He brings three decades of experience and an emphasis on helping people set clear goals and take steps toward a more satisfying life.
He combines client-centered listening with cognitive and emotion-focused tools. Sessions often look at strengths and areas to grow, then build small, manageable steps toward change. He draws on pastoral counseling and coaching perspectives to support values, meaning, and purpose.
Background and approach
Rodney has extensive experience with relationship issues, including communication problems, commitment questions, infidelity, and separation. He also helps people facing career transitions, grief and end-of-life concerns, addictions, and the anger and isolation that follow painful life events. Work with him may include structured assessments and practical inventories to clarify patterns and preferences.
These tools can guide conversations about parenting, fatherhood issues, family of origin dynamics, and forgiveness work. He also addresses self-esteem, shame, emptiness, and intimacy-related struggles. Sessions are delivered using a mix of video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different needs.
He practices in South Carolina and brings 33 years of counseling experience to each conversation. People who want a values-oriented approach that also uses concrete strategies may find his style helpful.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and commit to small actions that reflect those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching practical ways to notice thoughts and move toward meaningful behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It works well for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and situations where clear steps and homework tasks can reduce symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on emotions and attachment needs to improve closeness and communication in relationships; it can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and repairing connection.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest one or a mix of methods to try. Progress is reviewed together and the plan is adjusted if something doesn’t fit.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, and busy schedules while using the same therapeutic approaches typically used in person.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English