About Lucinda
Lucinda Rhoads is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor with 29 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, ADHD, self-esteem struggles, and grief. She focuses on practical support for everyday problems like panic attacks, parenting strain, relationship conflict, career changes, and compassion fatigue. She uses calm, direct conversation to help people make sense of hard feelings.
Sessions emphasize understanding and clear next steps. Lucinda listens for how past experiences affect current reactions and helps people try different ways of coping.
How Lucinda works
Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and on client-centered methods to keep the client's goals central. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and EMDR when trauma processing is needed. These methods are blended to fit each person rather than applied as one fixed program.
In sessions she focuses on skills that can be used between meetings, such as grounding for panic, communication tools for conflict, and planning for big life changes. She supports people working through complicated feelings like guilt, shame, and abandonment, and helps build routines that reduce overwhelm. Lucinda invites open conversation about goals and progress.
She works with people in a collaborative way, adjusting pace and tools as needs evolve. Prospective clients in Ohio can expect practical guidance and steady support toward clearer next steps.
Lucinda lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
What Lucinda works with
The areas below are the ones Lucinda 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
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 29 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape today's patterns and helps people change how they connect with others; it can be useful for issues like abandonment, attachment problems, and relationship struggles. Client-centered therapy centers the client's own goals and pace, using empathic listening to help people clarify values and decide next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which helps with anxiety, panic, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they choose methods and adjust them over time so sessions match changing needs and progress.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to stay connected between sessions and to check in without scheduling a full appointment. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication styles while keeping the focus on skill-building, trauma processing, and practical problem solving.
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