About Rochelle
Rochelle Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She brings 12 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, mood disorders, and ADHD. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she aims to make therapy a respectful space where people feel heard.
Rochelle uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in each person's priorities. Mindfulness and dialectical strategies are woven in to teach emotion regulation and coping skills. She has worked with people facing trauma, grief, relationship struggles, parenting strain, career transitions, and issues like body image and intimacy.
She also supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and co-occurring problems such as substance use and mood instability. Her experience includes helping clients navigate adoption, attachment concerns, and separation or divorce. In sessions Rochelle aims to tailor the plan to each person.
She talks with clients about goals, tries different techniques, and adjusts the work based on what helps most. The emphasis is on practical steps people can use between sessions to manage symptoms and make steady progress. Rochelle offers a direct, compassionate style that avoids shaming or labeling.
She encourages people who are ready to make changes to reach out and begin a collaborative process toward clearer coping and improved day-to-day functioning.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Rochelle commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered methods in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with practical, testable strategies for mood and behavior. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, collaborative relationship so goals come from what matters most to the person.She also integrates elements of dialectical behavior therapy when stronger emotion regulation skills are needed, teaching tools for managing intense feelings and reducing impulsive reactions. Choosing an approach is a joint process; the therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adapt the plan based on what fits a client's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video visits let people use visual cues and longer talks, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while still getting structured therapeutic support.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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