About Lucinda
Lucinda Rhoads is a licensed professional clinical counselor in Ohio who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and addiction concerns. She also supports clients dealing with low self-esteem, ADHD, relationship and family stress, grief, parenting strain, career decisions, and coping with life changes. Lucinda brings 29 years of experience and aims to make conversations straightforward and practical.
She works in a collaborative way. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the client and building skills that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Lucinda draws on somatic approaches to notice how the body holds stress, and on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen emotional connection and self-awareness. Her work often combines short-term tools and longer-term exploration. Clients may learn grounding strategies for panic or anxiety, communication steps for relationship friction, and planning tools for career or parenting challenges.
Therapy also addresses deeper material like trauma, abandonment, guilt, shame, and issues tied to veteran experiences. Lucinda uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when they fit the client’s goals. Those methods help reframe unhelpful thoughts, build emotion regulation, and reduce impulsivity.
She also attends to bodily signals and pacing when trauma or intense stress are present. Sessions can include conversation, body-aware exercises, and skill practice tailored to each person. Lucinda prefers plain language and concrete steps so people can try new ways of coping between meetings.
She practices in Ohio and conducts work in English.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. Online sessions can include guided body awareness, breathing, and movement suggestions to help reduce tension and support regulation. This approach is useful for anxiety, trauma responses, and chronic stress.Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape current feelings. In therapy this looks like talking through relationship habits, practicing new ways of relating, and building trust in the therapeutic relationship to try different behaviors. It can help with abandonment, attachment issues, and difficulties with intimacy.
Client-centered therapy centers the client's goals and pace. The therapist follows the person's lead, offers reflection, and helps clarify values and choices. This style supports anyone navigating life changes, grief, or decisions about career and parenting.
Finding the right mix is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your needs, preferences, and goals and suggest which approaches to try first. Together you can adjust methods over time based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, manage energy levels, and continue work between meetings. Many people find the variety of formats helps them stay consistent and apply new skills in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English