About Brett
Brett Rhoden is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Florida with five decades of experience. He helps people navigate anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, addiction concerns, trauma, grief, and attention-related challenges like ADHD. Brett keeps sessions straightforward and conversational.
He aims to build a calm space where clients can name what’s hard and talk through it without judgment. He encourages small, practical steps that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
In therapy he draws on approaches that focus on thoughts, values, and emotional connection. Conversations may look at patterns that keep problems going and at choices that move someone toward what matters most. He also helps clients notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses.
Clients can expect a respectful, steady style that balances listening with clear guidance. Brett often uses direct questions and pragmatic exercises so progress feels tangible. He works at the client’s pace and keeps goals realistic.
With a long professional history, Brett has worked across many concerns from mood and stress to relationship and identity issues. He frames therapy as a shared effort and invites people to bring honestly what they’re feeling. Taking that first step is normal to feel hard, and he acknowledges the courage it takes to begin.
Practical approaches delivered through online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values, even when strong feelings or distraction show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in day-to-day life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people develop healthier ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together the client and therapist will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust them over time in a collaborative way.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and messaging work for shorter check-ins, written reflection, or fitting sessions into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- 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
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