Rhonda Bolden, LCPC
Licensed in Illinois · 5 years in practice
Rhonda Bolden is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor with five years of experience helping people navigate emotional pain and life transitions.
License and registration
- LCPC, Illinois
- 180.015248 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1790472413 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
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About Rhonda
Rhonda Bolden is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor with five years of experience helping people navigate emotional pain and life transitions. She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and respectful. Rhonda focuses on building a calm, open space where people can speak honestly about what’s on their mind.
Her work commonly addresses relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and challenges with motivation. She also supports people dealing with grief, intimacy-related concerns, sleep problems, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Practical concerns like career direction, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and blended family issues are part of her practice as well. Rhonda uses approaches that center the person’s experience and teach useful skills. She draws on client-centered methods to make sessions collaborative and CBT and DBT techniques for coping skills and emotion regulation.
Mindfulness and emotionally-focused ideas also guide conversations about connection and self-awareness. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Rhonda helps people set small, clear steps to try between visits and checks progress together.
The tone is encouraging but realistic, with attention to what each person needs right now. She provides services in Illinois and conducts sessions in English. People typically begin by describing the problem they want to change, then together they work out practical strategies and supports for moving forward.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Rhonda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Rhonda names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and perspective, with the therapist following your lead and reflecting what matters most to you. This approach helps when someone needs a calm space to sort feelings and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches clear strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and motivation by giving concrete tools to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and skills for managing intense feelings and difficult situations. It can be useful for mood instability, self-harm urges, and improving coping under stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust as needed. This collaborative process makes it easier to pick methods that actually fit how someone likes to work.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a full session is helpful, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people share updates between visits. These formats create flexibility for scheduling, follow-up, and using skills in daily life.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Rhonda help with?
She works with relationship issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and depression, and similar concerns. Additional focuses include grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep difficulties, ADHD, and caregiving stress.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and collaborative, centered on the person’s needs. She combines listening with practical skill building to help people manage emotions and make changes.
How much professional experience does she have?
She has five years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and life challenges.
Is Rhonda a licensed clinician and where is she based?
She holds an Illinois LCPC license and practices in Illinois.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit varied needs and schedules.
How are costs and scheduling handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To get started, select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.
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