Rhonda Waller, LMFT

Rhonda Waller is a California-based licensed therapist who brings nine years of clinical experience to her work supporting individuals, couples, and polycules. She practices from a relational, attachment-focused, and trauma-informed perspective, believing that healing often unfolds within the context of relationships and early attachment patterns. Rhonda holds an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - and combines that clinical foundation with specialized training to address complex emotional and relational concerns.

She has worked extensively with LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities, attending to the particular strengths and stressors that arise when identity and belonging are at stake. Rhonda supports people facing depression, anxiety, anger, adjustment challenges, personality-related concerns, and addiction, and she meets each person with respect for their resilience and capacity for growth.

Rhonda is EMDRIA-certified in EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - a trauma-focused approach she uses to help process experiences such as physical or sexual abuse, combat or incarceration-related trauma, active shooter incidents, chronic illness impacts, and wounds tied to gender or racial identity. In addition, she has AASECT sex therapy training (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists), which informs sensitive work around sexual pain, mismatched desire, communication about sex, infidelity recovery, and sexual effects of trauma or life transitions like infertility or adoption.

Her aim is to help people build more secure connections with themselves and others, fostering greater self-understanding, authentic expression, and the intimacy and fulfillment they seek.

Trauma-Informed and Relational Care Online

Rhonda uses EMDR, a structured trauma-processing method that can help people reduce the intensity of distressing memories by working through them with guided processing techniques; EMDR is often used for a range of traumatic experiences and their lingering effects. She also incorporates an attachment-focused, relational approach that explores how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and helps people build more secure bonds in intimate and family relationships. Additionally, Rhonda draws on AASECT-informed sex therapy methods to address sexual concerns and the ways sexuality intersects with relationship dynamics and trauma.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rhonda partners with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and together they tailor techniques and pacing to suit what feels most helpful and realistic for the individual or couple.

Online therapy offers flexible options for engaging in this work - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not possible, live chat for real-time typed exchanges, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These modalities make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access licensed professionals from different locations while maintaining continuity of care.