About Wanda
Wanda Rodgers is a licensed clinical social worker in Mississippi with 13 years of experience. She focuses on practical concerns that often feel urgent, such as sleep problems, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and work stress. Her style is straightforward and respectful, and she aims to make the first steps feel more manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
In sessions she adapts the conversation to each person’s needs. Wanda listens first, then helps set small goals that fit daily life.
Background and approach
She uses tools from client-centered work and cognitive-behavioral approaches to address thoughts, habits, and routines that keep problems going. Wanda also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to help people understand and shift patterns in important relationships. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used when clients want fast, practical changes like improving sleep, boosting motivation, or managing stress during a life transition.
She has experience with ADHD, intimacy-related concerns, trauma and abuse, and a range of mood and adjustment issues. Wanda also works with people facing medical and aging-related stresses, chronic pain, caregiving and end-of-life concerns, and addiction-related challenges. Her work aims to be compassionate and realistic.
Conversations are tailored to what each person needs that day, whether that is a plan for coping with panic, steps to improve sleep, or a path toward rebuilding confidence. Wanda encourages small, steady changes that add up over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. It helps people talk through feelings and set goals at their own pace, which works well over video or phone when someone needs a thoughtful, steady conversation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and habits that drive distress and builds practical skills to change them. This approach is useful for sleep problems, anxiety, and depression and can include homework between sessions that is easy to review through messaging or during a video call.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and shift patterns in close relationships and emotional reactions. It supports clients who want clearer emotional expression and stronger connections, and it adapts to online formats when partners or individuals prefer remote sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those aims, and adjust strategies over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques feel most helpful.
Online sessions offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins and brief skill practice. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English