Chonlada Jarukitisakul , RI Psychologist PS01791, MA Psychologist PSY11069

Chonlada Jarukitisakul is a Rhode Island psychologist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, eating and body image concerns, relationship strain, and trauma. She speaks English and Thai and brings 13 years of clinical experience to straightforward, hopeful conversations. Her approach is practical and focused on understanding what matters to each person.

Chonlada uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that are adapted to each person's needs. Sessions focus on building self-understanding, reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life, and learning skills to manage strong emotions and difficult thoughts. She pays attention to cultural background and identity when discussing concerns like immigration, gender questions, or multicultural stress.

People often come for help with attachment, abandonment worries, communication problems, or struggles with control and compulsions. Chonlada works with issues tied to family dynamics, isolation or loneliness, guilt and shame, and dissociation with patience and curiosity. She aims to make therapy a place to name patterns and try different ways of responding.

Her clinical training spans both Rhode Island and Massachusetts licensure and she draws on relational and social justice perspectives when helpful. Sessions combine skill building, reflective work, and practical problem solving. She invites clients to set goals and to move at a pace that feels manageable.

To begin, people select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to availability.

How evidence-based techniques work online

Chonlada draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide online sessions in plain, usable ways. One approach focuses on teaching practical coping and thinking skills to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms; clients learn concrete steps to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Another approach emphasizes emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills to manage intense feelings and urges related to eating, trauma reactions, or compulsive behaviors. These methods are used flexibly to match the person’s needs.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals and try techniques together, adjusting methods based on what helps most. This shared decision-making helps tailor sessions to cultural background, identity questions, and specific concerns like body image or relationship patterns.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of skills, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging make brief check-ins and skills practice easier, and text-based messaging supports ongoing processing between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family life, or busy schedules.