About Rhianna
Rhianna Belair is a licensed marriage and family therapist with twelve years of clinical experience. She practices in New York and holds a California LMFT as well. She focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, trauma, or relationship and family stress.
Her sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She listens for patterns that keep a problem alive and then helps clients try different ways of responding. Rhianna adapts the pace and language to each person, so sessions feel direct and understandable rather than full of jargon.
Background and approach
Areas she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship and family concerns. She also works with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, adoption and foster care concerns, and challenges tied to neurodivergence like autism and Asperger Syndrome. Common topics include communication problems, codependency, commitment worries, and body image struggles.
Rhianna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and builds a plan based on each person’s priorities. She helps people break big problems into small, manageable steps and practices new skills between sessions. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
People seeking help start by describing what feels most urgent. From there she and the client set concrete goals and check progress regularly. Her approach is respectful, straightforward, and focused on usable strategies that fit everyday life.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Rhianna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in practical ways. Cognitive-style approaches look at unhelpful thinking patterns and teach ways to test and shift those thoughts; this helps with anxiety, depression, and worry-related phobias. Skills-based methods emphasize learning new coping tools for stress, emotional regulation, and relationship communication; these tools are practiced during and between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client explore goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose techniques to try, review how those efforts are going, and adjust the plan as needed so it fits the person’s life and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for quick updates, brief coaching, or paced written reflection that can fit around work or caregiving. These formats make it easier to keep regular appointments and practice skills in everyday situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California, New York
- Languages
- English
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