About Rhonda
Rhonda Aragon is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with ten years of practice as a psychotherapist. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and addiction. Rhonda aims to make therapy clear and practical so people can use what they learn day to day.
Rhonda creates a calm space where clients can talk about hard things. She listens closely and helps people name what’s happening for them.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple skills for coping, clearer communication strategies, and steps to rebuild confidence. Her work covers many life challenges, including grief, parenting strain, intimacy-related struggles, sleep problems, anger, and career stress. She also addresses concerns such as attachment and abandonment, body image, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.
Rhonda tailors the focus to each person’s situation and goals. Rhonda uses a mix of approaches to match what the individual needs in the moment. That can mean practical skill-building, emotion-focused work, or trauma processing depending on the concern.
She involves clients in decisions about what methods to try. People who prefer straightforward, steady support tend to do well with her style. She works in English and offers sessions in several online formats.
To begin, a short questionnaire helps match goals and schedule the first meeting.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s experience. A therapist offers empathy and supports people in finding their own answers, which helps with self-esteem, life transitions, and ongoing stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together. It teaches practical techniques for reducing anxiety, improving sleep, and changing patterns that feed depression or relationship problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It can be useful for people who struggle with intense feelings, anger, or relationship challenges.
Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. This helps make sure the work matches the person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video lets people work face to face when that matters. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing things out. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico, Texas
- Languages
- English