About Rochelle
Rochelle Smith is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward approach to sessions.
Background and approach
Rochelle aims to make therapy understandable and useful for people facing stress, anxiety, mood struggles, addiction, and relationship concerns. She listens first and tailors the work to each person.
Sessions blend practical skill building with space to talk about history and feelings. That means using tools to manage difficult moments and also looking at patterns that keep problems coming back.
Rochelle uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. Those approaches help with mood concerns, anxiety, coping with life changes, and self-regulation skills.
She also draws on motivational interviewing when people want support making big changes like recovery or habit shifts. Her background includes supporting people with trauma, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She has worked with concerns connected to adoption and foster care, attachment, blended family dynamics, chronic illness, and codependency. In session she aims for warmth and respect.
Conversations focus on realistic steps, homework you can try between sessions, and clearer ways to communicate with the people in your life. Rochelle encourages small, steady changes that add up over time.
How client-centered and skills-based work fits online
Rochelle draws on client-centered therapy to make sessions focus on the person in front of her. That approach emphasizes listening, validation, and shaping the work around individual goals. It helps people feel heard and guides the direction of treatment.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT gives concrete tools for managing anxiety, depression, sleep problems, eating concerns, and coping with life changes. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are often used to build emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills when feelings run high.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. Rochelle will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick strategies and adjust the plan as progress is made, so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you work face to face; phone calls are useful when bandwidth is low or you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging can be helpful for quick coaching, tracking homework, or staying connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what feels most helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English