Brett Rhoden
Calm practical help for life and relationships
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 50 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brett
Brett Rhoden is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings five decades of experience to his work. He offers calm, straightforward help for people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, relationship strain, and trauma. He speaks plainly and focuses on creating a space where people can say what they feel without being judged.
He uses clear, goal-oriented methods rather than long lectures. Sessions are practical and usually center on understanding patterns, trying small changes, and noticing what works.
Background and approach
He often blends approaches to match what each person needs in the moment. His training includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help with thoughts and behavior. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered methods are used to improve connection and to make people feel heard.
Existential ideas can be brought in when life changes or meaning become central concerns. In sessions he listens first, then offers simple tools and experiments to try between meetings. He explains options and helps people pick what fits their life.
The goal is clearer choices and small steps toward relief. He is licensed in Florida as an LMFT, Florida license number MT905, and has worked professionally for 50 years. Sessions are available in English and can be scheduled through the site's matching and booking process.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small committed actions that move a person toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change them. These skills are useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape behavior and feelings and can help when connection or trust is a core issue.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to each person’s situation and goals, then suggests methods to try. Together they adjust the plan based on what helps, combining approaches when that fits the problem better.
Online work makes this flexible and easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions offer simplicity, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it possible to keep steady momentum between sessions and to use tools in daily life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 50 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Brett
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