About Antoinette
Antoinette Rodrigues is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings three decades of experience to her practice in Hawaii. She focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, anger, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at people who want practical help without judgment. Antoinette keeps sessions interactive and respectful.
She listens first, then helps clients identify small, manageable steps. Conversations are practical and paced to each person's needs, with time to talk about feelings and real-life demands.
Her background includes long-term clinical work with a wide variety of concerns, from postpartum depression and panic attacks to workplace stress and caregiver burnout. She also addresses family of origin issues, codependency, domestic violence aftermath, fertility-related stress, and multicultural concerns.
Antoinette draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside humanistic and family systems ideas. That means she combines concrete strategies with an eye on how relationships and family patterns shape problems.
The result is an approach that aims to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Antoinette uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Antoinette uses a mix of evidence-based techniques, humanistic ideas, and family systems thinking. Cognitive-behavioral style work focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or panic attacks. Humanistic approaches emphasize listening, respect, and helping people clarify their values and goals to guide change. Family systems ideas look at patterns between people and help identify how relationships or family history affect current struggles, which can be useful for parenting stress or family of origin issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then adapt methods as needed. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques fit best for the problem at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English