Rev. Rhoda Stuart, LPC

Rev. Rhoda Stuart uses practical, goal-focused approaches to help people manage difficult life challenges. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with over two decades of clinical experience. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people make small changes that add up to real progress.

She often works with relationship strain, anger, and issues that hurt self-esteem. She also helps with career concerns, stress, anxiety, and substance use struggles. People bring grief, trauma, parenting questions, and mood concerns such as depression or bipolar issues. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, family-of-origin patterns, and veteran and armed forces issues.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - and Solution-Focused Therapy to build clear, practical steps in each session. CBT is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Solution-Focused work helps set concrete goals and track progress between meetings.

Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation and goals. The therapist adapts the conversation and plan to match what a person needs right now. That could mean skill-building for stress and anger, short-term problem solving, or longer work on deeper life patterns.

Rev. Stuart encourages steady, reachable change. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and meets people with respect and compassion. To begin, follow the site’s Start Therapy flow to match and schedule a session.

How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Translate to Online Sessions

Rev. Rhoda Stuart uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in ways that fit well with remote work. CBT involves spotting unhelpful thoughts, trying different behaviors, and practicing new skills between meetings. That makes it easy to set homework and review progress in later online sessions. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on clear, short-term goals and keeps sessions practical and forward-moving, which helps people see change in small steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which techniques match their goals and preferences. Together they check what’s working and adjust the plan as needed so sessions stay relevant and useful.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm current session options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - fewer transit needs, more flexible scheduling, and simpler ways to keep short check-ins. They also let people keep momentum between appointments by sharing goals and homework in writing when that fits someone’s routine.