About Rilda
Rilda Smith is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, sleep problems, life changes, compassion fatigue, and burnout. She speaks English and offers online options that can fit busy lives.
Rilda uses a practical, people-first approach in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients name what matters most. She works collaboratively to develop small, doable steps that ease symptoms and restore daily functioning.
How Rilda works
Her work often addresses relationship struggles, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, career questions, depression, and attention differences such as ADHD. She also helps with specific themes like abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver strain, and coping after disasters or major loss. Rilda blends several therapeutic styles to fit each person.
She draws on client-centered ways to follow the client’s lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to change thinking and behavior patterns, mindfulness practices to calm the nervous system, motivational interviewing to support change, and narrative methods to reframe life stories. Clients can expect straightforward conversation and practical tools. Rilda emphasizes strengths and small experiments that make life easier.
She supports people in finding clearer choices and building routines that help sleep, mood, and relationships. Rilda practices in Oklahoma as an OK LMFT and accepts international clients. She has worked with many adults over two decades and aims to make the process as manageable as possible from the first contact onward.
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What Rilda works with
The areas below are the ones Rilda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
How Rilda Brings Therapy Online with Practical Approaches
Rilda commonly uses client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness work in online sessions. Client-centered therapy means the therapist follows the client’s lead, listens closely, and helps people clarify what matters to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm the mind and improve sleep and stress management.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. Rilda will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what feels doable. Together they try different methods and adjust plans until the tools fit the client’s life and needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing facial cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and flexibility for busy schedules. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or travel.
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