About Rhonda
Rhonda Hunt is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and struggles with self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her work also covers intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, career questions, and compassion fatigue. Rhonda’s approach is warm and collaborative.
She listens first and helps people name what feels most urgent. Sessions focus on practical skills like improving communication, managing panic or anxiety, and building self-love.
She also helps people sort through family of origin issues and problems tied to abandonment or codependency. Her methods include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR for past trauma, Imago ideas for relationship patterns, and mindfulness to ease intense emotions.
These tools are used to reduce symptoms and to teach coping skills that fit everyday life. Rhonda is experienced with mood disorders, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and the emotional fallout of disasters.
She also addresses money and career concerns, midlife transitions, and questions about life purpose. Sessions help people set realistic goals and practice new ways of responding.
People who meet with Rhonda can expect steady, practical guidance and a focus on small changes that add up. She helps clients identify next steps and take them at a pace that feels manageable.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, empathetic relationship. It helps people feel heard, clarifies what matters most, and guides practical steps toward change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to reduce anxiety, panic, and depressive patterns. EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process painful memories so those memories cause less distress over time and can be helpful for post-traumatic stress and past abuse.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made so adjustments can be made together.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to keep momentum between sessions, share quick updates, or work through skills in real time. These options let people access licensed professionals from different locations and fit sessions around work, parenting, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English