About Rhonda
Rhonda Waller is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She offers compassionate, relationship-focused care for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and relationship struggles. Rhonda listens with curiosity and aims to make the therapy space feel direct and steady.
Rhonda sees how early relationships shape current patterns. She uses an attachment-informed perspective to help people understand how they connect and disconnect from others.
How Rhonda works
Her work often addresses abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, and family of origin problems. She also supports people navigating intimate and sexual concerns, including kink and alternative sex culture matters. Rhonda helps with communication around desire, sexual pain, mismatched libido, and rebuilding trust after breaches like infidelity.
She approaches these topics without judgment and with practical steps to improve dialogue and closeness. Rhonda has nine years of clinical experience working with complex trauma, dissociation, substance issues, and the effects of chronic stress. She brings a trauma-informed stance to grief, divorce and separation, caregiver stress, and co-occurring mental health and substance concerns.
Sessions focus on concrete strategies and exploration of underlying patterns. People meet Rhonda for focused work on commitment and control issues, emotional emptiness, and relationship communication problems. Her aim is to help people create more supported ways of relating to themselves and others.
Practical tools and steady support are central to her approach.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Rhonda commonly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on relationships and trauma. An attachment-informed approach helps people see how early bonds shape current reactions and relationship patterns; it is useful for abandonment, communication, and commitment concerns. A trauma-informed stance involves pacing work around painful memories and teaching grounding and coping skills to manage dissociation, anxiety, and the effects of abuse.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will review goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which techniques to prioritize and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for full conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, homework, or when writing helps process feelings. These options make it easier to fit regular care into a busy life while keeping focus on practical change and emotional healing.
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