User:Rhonda Findling

Rhonda Findling is a psychotherapist and author of ''Don’t Call That Man! A Survival Guide To Letting Go, Don't Text that Man! A Guide To Self Protective Dating In The Age of Technology, The Don't Text That Man Journal, The Don't Text That Man! App, The Commitment Cure:What To Do When You Fall For An Ambivalent Man, The Dating Cure, Portrait of My Desire, and A Jewish American Princess Dethroned''. An expert in relationships, break-ups and detaching from unhealthy romantic entanglements, Rhonda has appeared on several national talk shows including CNN Headline News, Ricki Lake, Geraldo, Maury Povitch, Eye Witness News, Good Day New York, Carnie, Ilyana, Tempest and Judith Regan Tonight. She has also been a guest on radio shows nationwide. She has led workshops and seminars (including the Learning Annex, the 92nd St. Y and Hazelden) in New York, L.A., Paris, Berlin and London. She has presented trainings for professionals based on her clinical work at the 70th Annual Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Conference, the 15th European Symposium in Group Analysis, and the Training Institute for Mental Health in New York City. Rhonda has been featured in the New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Forbes.com, Newsday, Rocky Mountain News, The Boston Globe,Cosmopolitan magazine, Latina Magazine, Glamour (UK and Paris editions) Le Progress, Life and Style, US Weekly, Femina and Today’s Black Woman. Her articles have appeared in Complete Woman Magazine, Essence, and International Living. com. She was the host of the radio show "Help Me Rhonda"! Rhonda is also the author of the play "The Psychic" which was produced by Caicedo Productions and Doubletime Productions at the American Theatre of Actors in New York City November 1996. The Psychic also had a staged reading at the Nuyorican Poetry Cafe in New York City August 1997. She has taken classes in directing, screenwriting, and filmmaking at New School University and Film and Video Arts Inc. She studied acting at HB Studios, Stella Adler Studio Of Acting in New York City, and with William H Macy at the St. Nicholas Theatre Company in Chicago. She's appeared in several community theatre productions on Long island, New York and two off-off Broadway productions in Chicago. Rhonda was born in Brooklyn where she lived with her mother,father, and brother (Drew Findling,attorney and TV commentator/legal analyst) until she was 11 when they moved to Smithtown, Long Island where she attended Greathollow Junior Highschool. After her parents divorced she moved with her mother and brother to Coram where she attended Newfield Highschool. Rhonda graduated from Stonybrook University and went onto study clinical psychology at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Rhonda has worked as a psychologist for the State of New York. She was a counselor at Victims Information Bureau where she counseled victims of rape, sexual assault and spouse abuse. Rhonda has also taught courses on psychology and counseling at Marymount College and Berkely Business College in New York City. She was a psychotherapist on the staff of Post Graduate Center for Mental Health in New York for fourteen years. She has had a private practice for over twenty years. She has been in full time private practice for thirteen years. Her website is www.rhondafindling.com