About Rhonda
Rhonda McEntire is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical, person-centered care to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Rhonda aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.
Her work emphasizes listening first and tailoring support to each person's goals. She helps people build self-esteem, cope with life changes, and find purpose after difficult seasons. Sessions often mix skills practice with honest conversation about what’s getting in the way.
Background and approach
Rhonda draws on client-centered therapy to center the person’s needs and preferences. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking, plus dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotional regulation. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added when those methods fit the situation.
Across her practice she addresses many sensitive concerns. These include addictions, bipolar mood concerns, codependency, dissociation, grief around separation or divorce, and family of origin problems. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness or pain and those processing adoption or foster care experiences.
Therapy with Rhonda aims to be collaborative and goal-focused. She works with people to set realistic steps, practice new skills, and measure progress. Her style is direct but warm, with an emphasis on practical changes that make daily life easier.
Approaches for online skill-building and emotional change
Rhonda uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's goals and values. This approach means sessions start with listening and understanding what matters most, then shaping the work around those priorities. It helps when someone needs support that fits their life and identity.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT provides practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits, helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy supplies specific skills for regulating intense emotions and improving coping during crises.
Rhonda treats choosing the right approach as a team effort. She will review options, try strategies, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients set goals and Rhonda checks in to make sure the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage: video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is an issue, live chat for quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging for brief updates and coaching. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to practice new skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English