About Rhonda
Rhonda Bolden is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with five years of experience practicing in Illinois. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what is on their minds and begin to make changes. Her approach aims to help clients feel heard and understood while they work toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping.
Rhonda often helps with relationship strain and intimacy concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma, depression, low self-esteem, motivation struggles, and sleep problems.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to mood disorders and ADHD related challenges when these affect daily life. Her work blends body-focused awareness and talking therapies. That means noticing how stress shows up in the body as well as discussing thoughts and patterns.
Sessions focus on simple, practical steps clients can try between appointments. Rhonda uses client-centered methods to prioritize each person’s pace and priorities. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation when needed.
The goal is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes. People come to her with a variety of life concerns including grief, career shifts, chronic health stresses, caregiver strain, and issues related to prejudice or cultural difference. She aims to help clients gain clearer choices and more reliable ways to cope with life’s changes.
How Rhonda’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Rhonda uses somatic-informed work and client-centered therapy to help people tune into physical and emotional signals. Somatic-informed work invites attention to how tension or breath patterns relate to feelings, which can help with trauma, anxiety, and stress. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person’s priorities so goals and pace come from the client rather than the therapist.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT offers concrete tools for sleep problems, depression, and mood concerns and often pairs well with body-focused awareness for fuller symptom relief. Deciding which approach to emphasize is a collaborative process; the therapist and client discuss needs, goals, and preferences and adjust methods over time.
Online therapy with Rhonda is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to access regular support from home, coordinate busy days, and try short check-ins between sessions. The mix of talking and somatic-informed practices can be adapted to whichever format feels most helpful for the person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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