About Brett
Brett Rhoden is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 50 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship struggles. He is based in Florida and works in English. He encourages people to take the first step toward change and supports them through difficult decisions and painful life moments.
Brett creates an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken plainly. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what the person wants to change.
How Brett works
He uses practical conversation and tools so people can try small steps between meetings. His background spans long experience with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting stresses, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. He also addresses concerns linked to attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care, and neurodiversity topics like autism and Asperger Syndrome.
Brett draws from several therapeutic approaches to fit each person's needs. He may use acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values, cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking, and attachment-focused work to improve relationship patterns. Sessions can include focused skill practice, talking through painful memories, and planning realistic changes.
Brett aims to help people build coping skills for anger, self-esteem struggles, addictions, and life transitions. He meets people where they are and works alongside them toward clearer next steps.
Brett lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Brett works with
The areas below are the ones Brett selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 50 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and then build small actions that align with those values. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in close relationships and helps people change those patterns to improve trust and connection.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as progress is made. Clients and the therapist collaborate to find the best path forward rather than sticking to a single method from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow more face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family life and to maintain contact when travel or time constraints come up.
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