About Rhonda
Rhonda Russ is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 11 years of formal counseling experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and issues around sexual behavior. Rhonda aims to make the first step toward change feel achievable and supported.
Rhonda creates a calm space where clients can talk about hard things without judgment. She pays attention to symptoms like compassion fatigue, moral injury, and post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
She also addresses process addictions, sex addiction, and self-harm concerns in straightforward conversations. Her approach emphasizes practical coping skills for day-to-day life. She helps people build routines and strategies to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and handle life changes.
Sessions often include problem-solving and planning for specific situations that cause distress. Rhonda also helps people process experiences such as domestic violence, sexual assault, dissociation, and grief after disasters. She supports exploration of guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose.
First responder issues and family conflict are other areas she addresses. Conversations are offered in English and shaped around each persons goals. Rhonda encourages small steps and clear goals so progress can be measured.
To begin, visitors are asked to use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
How evidence-based techniques guide online work
Rhonda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear steps and measurable change. One common approach she uses helps people learn specific coping skills for anxiety and intense emotions, such as grounding, breathing work, and activity planning to reduce overwhelm. These tools aim to lower day-to-day distress and improve functioning.She also applies techniques aimed at processing trauma and distressing memories in manageable ways, helping people reduce the hold those memories have on daily life. This work emphasizes pacing, safety, and building tolerance for uncomfortable feelings so progress feels steady rather than sudden.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, and together they decide which techniques to try first. Plans are adjusted as needed so therapy stays useful and focused on what matters to the client.
Because the biography does not specify session formats, please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to work well between sessions so progress continues outside of meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English