About Douglas
Douglas DeRhodes is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience. He offers calm, practical help for people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, addiction concerns, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and everyday struggles like sleep problems, parenting strain, and career stress. His approach is warm and collaborative, focused on what a person already does well and what they want to change.
He listens first and tailors sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build coping skills and clearer thinking. Treatment plans use strategies that fit the person’s life, whether they need short-term problem-solving or longer-term support. Douglas draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shape concrete steps and new habits.
He also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas to strengthen how people relate to themselves and others. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when intense emotions and emotion regulation are central concerns. Clients can expect a direct but compassionate style.
Conversations focus on practical tools like tracking patterns, practicing skills between sessions, and setting manageable goals. He emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. Douglas practices in Illinois as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker.
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions use a subscription plan that can be canceled at any time.
Approach-driven care offered online
Douglas uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name their values and take small steps toward them, even when feelings are difficult. ACT is practical for handling anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on meaningful actions rather than trying to eliminate every unpleasant thought.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT supports people dealing with sleep issues, mood swings, stress, or ADHD-related challenges by breaking problems into manageable tasks and practicing new responses.
Douglas treats choosing the right approach as a collaborative process. He will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust techniques as progress is made. The therapeutic path is shaped together rather than fixed in advance.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from different places. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or reinforce skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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
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