About Douglas
Douglas DeRhodes offers straightforward, compassionate support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or major life changes. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of experience and aims to make therapy practical and approachable. Sessions focus on real problems and clear next steps.
Douglas uses a warm, collaborative style rather than lecturing or pushing quick fixes. He helps people navigate struggles with addiction, sleep disruption, parenting strain, intimacy worries, career challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and self-esteem concerns.
Background and approach
He also addresses identity and LGBT questions and supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving burdens, or cancer-related stress. Many clients come for help managing emotions, improving communication, or recovering from loss. Douglas blends methods to fit each person’s needs.
He uses tools from cognitive behavioral work, acceptance strategies, attachment-focused thinking, and emotion-centered approaches to reduce distress and build practical skills. He emphasizes strengths and small, steady changes that add up over time. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
He works with adults and younger clients and makes appointment times available across the week, including early mornings and late evenings. People who choose Douglas can expect a respectful, goal-oriented process. He starts by listening closely, then helps set achievable goals and practices that work between sessions.
The aim is clearer thinking, better coping, and more satisfying daily life.
Approaches That Translate Well Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape current reactions, which helps with intimacy, communication, and attachment concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies patterns of thinking that reinforce distress and teaches practical exercises to shift those patterns and improve mood and coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Douglas collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life. He starts by listening, then suggests options and adapts strategies based on feedback and progress so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, practicing skills between meetings, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options support flexibility while keeping the focus on clear goals and real-world changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English