About Rochelle
Rochelle Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 12 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, respectful approach and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and addiction.
She also works with issues tied to relationships, intimacy, grief, parenting strains, ADHD, and career transitions. Her practice includes support for people coping with trauma, chronic illness, and body image or eating concerns.
How Rochelle works
Rochelle uses a mix of approaches that match each person’s needs. She draws on Client-Centered work to create a respectful, collaborative space. She uses Cognitive Behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and build different habits.
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness to teach emotion regulation and grounding skills. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical strategies, and checking progress together. She avoids labels and aims to treat each person with sensitivity and compassion.
Conversations are tailored to what matters most to the client, whether that is coping skills, communication, or planning next steps. Rochelle offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. She practices across a range of life challenges and helps people build routines that support calmer days and clearer choices.
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What Rochelle works with
The areas below are the ones Rochelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship. It helps people feel heard and decide what changes matter most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleeping or eating concerns, and stress management.Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist will discuss goals and try strategies that fit the client's needs and preferences. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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