Rhonda Duesterberg, LPC

Rhonda Duesterberg is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and tough life changes. She supports clients dealing with relationship tensions, family conflict, grief, trauma, and issues around intimacy. Her tone is straightforward and caring, aimed at people who need practical help now.

Rhonda draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and client-centered practices to guide sessions. She focuses on clear steps people can try between meetings, like thought tracking and small behavioral experiments. Sessions emphasize what the person wants to change and realistic ways to get there.

Her approach is collaborative. She listens first, then offers concrete tools and experiments to test in everyday life. She also helps people notice unhelpful patterns and build more helpful habits over time.

Rhonda has nine years of professional experience and holds an LPC, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. She practices in Colorado and works with adults facing a wide range of concerns, from caregiver stress and blended family issues to panic attacks and mood disorders.

People meet with her through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She explains the steps for getting started and what to expect so the first session is easier to handle.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Rhonda often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT gives concrete tools people can practice between sessions to see what helps.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches ways to accept difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful goals. ACT can help people tolerate hard emotions without getting stuck, and it supports values-driven action.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rhonda treats therapy as a collaboration and will help weigh methods based on the person's goals, preferences, and what feels helpful in early sessions.

Online therapy makes those approaches flexible. Video calls let people learn and practice skills face to face, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or better when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief reflections, coaching-style prompts, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.