About Douglas
Douglas DeRhodes greets readers with a calm, practical approach. He is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes.
He also supports those coping with addictions, sleep problems, parenting strain, intimacy concerns, and self-esteem challenges. Douglas keeps sessions collaborative and straightforward. He draws on each person's strengths and goals to shape treatment.
How Douglas works
Conversations are warm and interactive, with attention to what a person already does well and what they want to change. He uses a mix of approaches to fit different needs, including cognitive behavioral tools, acceptance strategies, and attachment-focused work.
These methods are chosen to help with mood, coping skills, relationships, and behavior patterns that cause pain or get in the way of daily life. Douglas has particular experience addressing complex situations such as co-occurring substance concerns, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, and identity-related stress like LGBT matters.
He also supports people facing body image, caregiver stress, aging and medical challenges. Sessions are offered in a variety of online formats so scheduling can fit into busy lives. He aims to build trust, acceptance, and practical change in therapy.
To begin, a short matching process helps connect a person to an appropriate schedule and session style.
Douglas lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Douglas works with
The areas below are the ones Douglas selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and skill building, which often helps with mood, sleep, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotions and can support people working on intimacy, communication, and self-worth.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to address. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, and choices are made collaboratively.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls let a therapist and client work face to face when schedules allow, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for quick check-ins, short reflections, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to try different formats as life requires.
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