- Warm interactive style
- Skills focused
- Trauma informed care
About Rochelle
Rochelle Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who focuses on helping people build stronger self-esteem and manage stress. She brings 12 years of experience to sessions and works with individuals facing anxiety, depression, addiction, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and grief. Rochelle aims to create a respectful, compassionate space for people to talk through what matters to them.
She uses a warm, interactive style that centers the client's perspective. Conversations are collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs. Rochelle draws on client-centered methods to understand a person’s goals, and cognitive behavioral ideas to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Rochelle also incorporates dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness practices to help with emotion regulation and coping. Motivational interviewing is part of her work when people are weighing change or need help finding what motivates them. She adjusts tools and techniques based on how a person responds during sessions.
Her background includes long-term clinical experience with trauma, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and complicated mood issues. Clients may work on practical skills for sleeping, eating, managing anger, or navigating career shifts. Rochelle emphasizes gradual steps and realistic goals so progress is steady and manageable.
People who choose her work together to build clearer goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track small wins. If someone is ready to make a change, she offers steady support and clear feedback along the way.
She uses a warm, interactive style that centers the client's perspective. Conversations are collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs. Rochelle draws on client-centered methods to understand a person’s goals, and cognitive behavioral ideas to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Rochelle also incorporates dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness practices to help with emotion regulation and coping. Motivational interviewing is part of her work when people are weighing change or need help finding what motivates them. She adjusts tools and techniques based on how a person responds during sessions.
Her background includes long-term clinical experience with trauma, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and complicated mood issues. Clients may work on practical skills for sleeping, eating, managing anger, or navigating career shifts. Rochelle emphasizes gradual steps and realistic goals so progress is steady and manageable.
People who choose her work together to build clearer goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track small wins. If someone is ready to make a change, she offers steady support and clear feedback along the way.