About Rhonda
Rhonda Palmer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Missouri with eight years of clinical experience. She creates a calm, honest space where people can bring what feels raw and hard. Sessions focus on practical steps and steady support rather than quick fixes.
Rhonda draws on somatic ideas alongside evidence-based talk therapies to help people notice how stress and emotions show up in the body. She uses attachment-based and client-centered approaches to explore relationship patterns and build safer ways of relating.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) are also part of her toolkit when thinking and feeling patterns need clearer structure. In session, Rhonda aims for collaboration. She listens, asks direct questions, and suggests small experiments to try between meetings.
The emphasis is on understanding patterns, learning new responses, and strengthening the skills that help day-to-day life. Rhonda works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, coping with life changes, addictions, parenting issues, family concerns, and ADHD. She also addresses themes like abandonment, attachment issues, communication problems, and grief around end-of-life care.
People who do best with her approach tend to be ready to reflect and try new steps. Rhonda keeps the work grounded and practical, helping people move forward at their own pace.
How somatic and relational approaches translate to online therapy
Rhonda uses somatic-informed work to help people notice how stress and emotions show up in their bodies. That approach invites simple awareness and grounding practices during sessions so clients can track bodily cues and try small shifts in feeling or posture.She also draws on attachment-based methods to look at relationship patterns and on client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on each person's needs. Attachment work helps identify how early patterns shape current relationships, while client-centered techniques prioritize the person's experience and pacing.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will discuss goals, test different tools, and adjust the plan as needed. This shared process helps match techniques to what actually helps in everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and let people use the format that feels most comfortable. Many find video useful for real-time interaction and somatic noticing, while chat or messaging can support between-session reflection and quick check-ins.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English