About Rhonda
Rhonda McEntire is a Florida licensed mental health counselor who draws on 25 years of clinical experience. She uses approachable, practical methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and self-esteem challenges. Rhonda focuses on real-life changes and coaching to help clients find better ways to manage daily demands.
Her work emphasizes listening first. She creates an accepting space where people can talk through feelings and clarify goals. Sessions often center on building coping skills, solving specific problems, and reducing overwhelm so life feels more manageable.
How Rhonda works
Rhonda blends client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That mix helps people notice unhelpful thinking, practice new behaviors, and learn emotion-regulation skills. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added when they fit a person’s needs and readiness to change.
She has experience supporting people through addiction, complicated family-of-origin issues, adoption and foster care matters, chronic illness and pain, and questions about gender. Rhonda also addresses divorce, domestic violence, codependency, dissociation, and struggles with guilt or shame. Sessions can include short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work depending on what someone wants.
Her style is practical and collaborative - she works with each person to set clear steps and check progress. People leave with concrete strategies they can use between sessions.
Rhonda lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Rhonda works with
The areas below are the ones Rhonda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rhonda commonly integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy into online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and letting a person set the pace, which helps people feel heard and clarify what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy tools when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. DBT offers step-by-step strategies to manage intense feelings, handle conflict, and reduce impulsive actions. Together these approaches give both empathy and concrete skills for everyday situations.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to pick methods that match a person’s goals, preferences, and stage of change. That way each plan is tailored and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual connection, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain regular contact with licensed professionals.
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