About Brett
Brett Rhoden is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Florida. He helps people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, grief, trauma, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
He also supports those coping with life changes and challenges like ADHD and bipolar mood concerns. Brett brings five decades of professional experience to sessions.
He focuses on creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly about what they are feeling. Conversations aim to make feelings clearer and to find practical next steps that fit each person’s life.
In sessions he draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based approaches to help people change unhelpful thinking and accept difficult feelings. He also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns.
The work tends to be conversational and goal-oriented rather than overly technical. Brett often helps people manage anger, rebuild trust, navigate separation and divorce, and address substance use concerns.
He has experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment struggles, and gender dysphoria among other focused areas. He pays attention to patterns like control issues, communication problems, and hoarding when they come up.
People who choose Brett can expect straightforward language and a steady presence in sessions. He encourages small, practical changes between meetings and checks progress together.
If someone wants to begin, the first step is a short matching process to schedule a session.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps people commit to actions that match their values even when emotions are hard to bear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how past relationships shape current ways of relating and helps people build different interaction habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, so treatment stays practical and personal.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or when someone prefers shorter, written exchanges. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving commitments.
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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