About Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes

Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes, PhD, LPC, NCC, BC-TMH, believes that lasting transformation begins with whole-person formation.

Her work connects healing, leadership, and sustainable performance through emotional regulation, ethical formation, and purposeful living. Across counseling, executive advisory, professional education, and daily formation, she helps individuals, professionals, and organizations strengthen decision-making, leadership capacity, and sustainable results while cultivating wholeness in body, soul, and spirit.

With nearly three decades of experience across behavioral health, executive leadership, social services, and higher education, Dr. Rhodes integrates trauma-informed care, behavioral science, Christian faith, ethical leadership, and professional performance development through the Rhodes Regulation & Results Framework™. This regulation-first framework combines evidence-informed clinical approaches with structured leadership methodology to support executive functioning, emotional regulation, strategic clarity, ethical decision-making, and sustainable performance.

Her life’s work is expressed through five integrated pathways:

Licensed Professional Counseling provides trauma-informed Christian TeleMental Health counseling for individuals seeking emotional healing, resilience, and whole-person wellness in Georgia, Florida, Delaware, and New Jersey.

Professional Performance Counseling Intensives™ support professionals and leaders within those states through structured counseling experiences that strengthen emotional regulation, leadership effectiveness, professional performance, and ethical decision-making within the scope of Licensed Professional Counseling.

Rhodes Regulation & Results Advisory™ serves executive leaders and organizations globally through strategic advisory services that help leaders regulate pressure, align strategy with performance, strengthen organizational systems, and cultivate sustainable leadership.

The Wellness Path Institute™, where she serves as Founder & President, advances professional education, workforce development, leadership formation, and certification pathways that integrate trauma-informed principles, ethical practice, Christian formation, and whole-person development. Its global learning and formation community includes members across the United States, Canada, and Africa.

The Return Experience™ offers high-achieving Christian women video lessons taught directly by Dr. Rhodes alongside an AI coach shaped by her distinctive voice and whole-person formation philosophy. This AI-assisted, Christ-centered coaching and formation experience supports reflection, emotional regulation, prayerful discernment, faithful stewardship, and daily practice. It honors each woman’s agency and does not replace professional counseling.

Dr. Rhodes is also the creator of the Wellness Path Certified Counselor™ (WPCC™) credential. The program equips clinicians, clergy, coaches, educators, students, and leaders to integrate whole-person formation with ethical, compassionate care while honoring their respective roles and scopes of practice.

Her published resources include the Amazon.com #1 Top New Release workbook, The Wellness Path: Nurturing Your Mind, Body, and Soul with Faith and Practice®, and the Amazon.com best-selling training manual, The Wellness Path Revealed: God’s Blueprint for Wholeness – Body, Soul, and Spirit™. These books offer guided reflection and practical tools for integrating Christian faith with whole-person formation.

Her work is informed by decades of clinical, leadership, and educational experience, as well as the lived wisdom that authentic transformation begins within. This conviction continues to shape every framework, program, and pathway she develops.

Ethical formation must precede influence.

Healing shapes character. Character shapes leadership. Leadership shapes legacy.

All Rhodes Lead Back to The Wellness Path®, where healing, leadership, and purpose align.

Mission, Vision, Values & Strategic Impact

Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes, PhD, LPC, NCC, BC-TMH, Licensed Professional Counselor, LLC d/b/a The Wellness Path Institute™ exists to advance whole-person formation, ethical leadership, and sustainable human flourishing through trauma-informed counseling, leadership development, professional education, executive advisory, and Christ-centered coaching and formation.

Grounded in Christian faith and the conviction that lasting transformation begins with whole-person formation, our work integrates behavioral science, trauma-informed principles, ethical practice, and evidence-informed approaches through the Rhodes Regulation & Results Framework™. We support emotional regulation, executive functioning, ethical decision-making, strategic clarity, and purposeful action for individuals, leaders, and organizations.

Our mission takes shape through five integrated pathways:

Licensed Professional Counseling: Trauma-informed Christian TeleMental Health counseling in Georgia, Florida, Delaware, and New Jersey.
Professional Performance Counseling Intensives™: Structured clinical counseling for professionals and leaders within those states, supporting emotional regulation, leadership effectiveness, and sustainable performance.
Rhodes Regulation & Results Advisory™: Strategic advisory services for executive leaders and organizations globally.
The Wellness Path Institute™: Professional education, workforce development, leadership formation, and certification grounded in whole-person care and ethical practice.
The Return Experience™: Video lessons taught directly by Dr. Rhodes alongside AI-assisted, Christ-centered coaching and daily whole-person formation for high-achieving Christian women.

Through these pathways, we equip individuals, counselors, clinicians, clergy, coaches, educators, leaders, and organizations to cultivate wholeness in body, soul, and spirit. We honor individual agency, professional scope, and ethical boundaries while supporting the capacity to regulate pressure, exercise sound judgment, cultivate resilience, and live and lead with wisdom, integrity, and purpose.

We believe that ethical formation must precede influence.

Healing shapes character. Character shapes leadership. Leadership shapes legacy.

To establish The Wellness Path Institute™ as a leading global institution advancing whole-person formation through Christian faith, trauma-informed principles, ethical leadership, professional excellence, and evidence-informed practice.

Through The Wellness Path® Ecosystem, we envision generations of individuals, counselors, clinicians, leaders, and communities flourishing in body, soul, and spirit, living with purpose, and creating a lasting legacy of wisdom, integrity, and compassionate service.

Whole-person formation serves as the foundation for healing, leadership, and sustainable human flourishing.

Licensed Professional Counseling and Professional Performance Counseling Intensives™ support healing, resilience, emotional regulation, and sustainable professional performance through trauma-informed, ethical clinical care.
Individuals, counselors, clinicians, coaches, educators, faith leaders, executives, and organizations are equipped to live and lead with wisdom, integrity, resilience, and purpose.
Rhodes Regulation & Results Advisory™, grounded in the Rhodes Regulation & Results Framework™, supports leaders and organizations in strengthening emotional regulation, executive functioning, strategic clarity, ethical decision-making, organizational health, and sustainable performance.
The Wellness Path Institute™ advances professional education, certification, workforce development, and leadership formation rooted in Christian faith, trauma-informed principles, evidence-informed practice, and ethical care within each participant’s role and scope of practice.
The Return Experience™ supports daily whole-person formation for high-achieving Christian women through video lessons taught directly by Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes and AI-assisted, Christ-centered coaching. It encourages reflection, emotional regulation, prayerful discernment, and faithful stewardship while honoring each woman’s agency.

Through counseling, executive advisory, professional education, certification, research, strategic partnerships, and daily formation, The Wellness Path® Ecosystem seeks to shape the future of healing, leadership, and workforce development. Its shared purpose is to cultivate individuals, practitioners, and leaders committed to ethical service, purposeful living, and flourishing in body, soul, and spirit.

Institutional Pillars

Counseling & Whole-Person Healing

We believe lasting transformation begins with whole-person formation. Through trauma-informed, evidence-informed professional counseling that integrates Christian faith and ethical care, we help individuals cultivate healing, resilience, emotional regulation, and wellness in body, soul, and spirit.

Leadership Regulation & Professional Performance

We believe effective leadership begins with inner regulation. Through the Rhodes Regulation & Results Framework™, we equip professionals and leaders to strengthen executive functioning, regulate pressure, exercise ethical judgment, align strategy with purposeful action, and cultivate sustainable performance.

Professional Education & Workforce Development

We believe professional excellence develops through intentional formation and continued learning. Through The Wellness Path Institute™, our educational programs, Wellness Path Certified Counselor™ (WPCC™) certification, and professional development initiatives equip clinicians, clergy, coaches, educators, students, and leaders to advance ethical, evidence-informed practice within their respective roles and scopes of practice.

Faith-Integrated Ethical Formation

We believe ethical influence grows through spiritual formation, humility, and professional integrity. We equip participants to integrate Christian faith, trauma-informed principles, and whole-person care in ways that honor biblical conviction, individual agency, professional boundaries, and ethical standards.

Daily Formation & Responsible Technology

We believe growth is nurtured through consistent practice, reflection, and prayerful discernment. Through The Return Experience™, high-achieving Christian women receive video lessons taught directly by Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes alongside AI-assisted, Christ-centered coaching that supports emotional regulation, faithful stewardship, and daily whole-person formation.

We use technology responsibly to support personal and spiritual growth. The AI coach honors each woman’s agency and does not replace professional counseling, make decisions for participants, or claim to know God’s will.

Strategic Impact Areas

The Wellness Path® Ecosystem advances whole-person formation, ethical leadership, and sustainable human flourishing across five strategic impact areas:

Behavioral
Health

Supporting emotional healing, resilience, and whole-person wellness through trauma-informed, ethical professional counseling and counseling intensives. Strengthening the behavioral health workforce through evidence-informed practice, professional formation, and continued learning.

Faith
Communities

Equipping churches, faith leaders, and ministry teams to integrate trauma-informed principles with biblical wisdom, supporting spiritual maturity, emotional health, and ethical communities of care that honor individual agency and appropriate helping boundaries.

Leadership & Organizations

Through the Rhodes Regulation & Results Framework™ and Rhodes Regulation & Results Advisory™, equipping leaders and organizations to strengthen emotional regulation, executive functioning, ethical decision-making, strategic clarity, organizational health, and sustainable performance.

Education & Workforce Development

Through The Wellness Path Institute™, preparing students, emerging professionals, clinicians, coaches, educators, clergy, and leaders for purposeful service through professional education, Wellness Path Certified Counselor™ (WPCC™) certification, leadership formation, and lifelong learning within their respective roles and scopes of practice.

Personal Formation & Daily Life

Through The Return Experience™, supporting high-achieving Christian women with video lessons taught directly by Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes and AI-assisted, Christ-centered coaching. This pathway encourages reflection, emotional regulation, prayerful discernment, faithful stewardship, and daily practices for flourishing in body, soul, and spirit.

Our Philosophy

We believe lasting transformation begins with whole-person formation. Healing, leadership, and purposeful living grow through intentional care for the body, soul, and spirit.

Grounded in Christian faith, trauma-informed principles, evidence-informed practice, and professional excellence, we equip individuals, leaders, and institutions to strengthen emotional regulation, cultivate resilience, and live and lead with integrity. We honor each person’s agency and pace, supporting sustainable flourishing through reflection, ethical formation, and daily practice.

Core Values

The Wellness Path Institute™ is guided by enduring values that shape our counseling, leadership, education, research, professional formation, and institutional partnerships.

Whole-Person Formation

We believe lasting transformation begins with whole-person formation. We cultivate healing, growth, and human flourishing by honoring the integration of body, soul, and spirit.

Excellence

We pursue excellence through lifelong learning, evidence-informed practice, professional competence, and continuous improvement in every aspect of our work.

Integrity

We honor ethical principles, licensure requirements, professional standards, and healthy boundaries, recognizing that trust is built through consistency between our values, words, and actions.

Stewardship

We faithfully steward our gifts, relationships, resources, influence, and calling with wisdom, responsibility, and sustainability. We believe lasting impact requires faithful service, healthy self-leadership, and intentional care for what has been entrusted to us.

Regulation Before Results

Through the Rhodes Regulation & Results Framework™, we believe emotional regulation, executive functioning, and wise decision-making form the foundation for ethical leadership, sustainable performance, and lasting impact.

Person-Centered Care

We cultivate compassionate, trauma-informed relationships that honor the dignity, strengths, experiences, and unique journey of every individual.

Cultural Humility

We embrace lifelong self-reflection, cultural responsiveness, and respectful engagement, recognizing that learning from diverse perspectives strengthens ethical and effective practice.

Christian Faith Integration

We thoughtfully integrate biblical wisdom with evidence-informed counseling, leadership, and education while honoring professional ethics, individual autonomy, and compassionate care.

Ethical Formation

We believe ethical formation must precede influence. Character, humility, and accountability provide the foundation for trustworthy leadership, responsible stewardship, and meaningful service.

Our Impact

Advancing Whole-Person Formation

Across five integrated pathways, we bring whole-person formation into counseling, leadership, professional education, and daily life. Our work connects Christian faith, trauma-informed principles, ethical care, and evidence-informed practice to support healing, purposeful living, and flourishing in body, soul, and spirit.

Strengthening Professional Practice

Through the Rhodes Regulation & Results Framework™, we help professionals and leaders strengthen emotional regulation, executive functioning, strategic clarity, and ethical decision-making. Our clinical and advisory pathways support the capacity to regulate pressure, lead with integrity, and pursue sustainable performance.

Developing the Future Workforce

Through The Wellness Path Institute™ and the Wellness Path Certified Counselor™ (WPCC™) credential, we equip clinicians, clergy, coaches, educators, students, and leaders with trauma-informed principles, ethical formation, and whole-person care within their respective roles and scopes of practice.

Our global learning and formation community includes members across the United States, Canada, and Africa.

Supporting Daily Formation

The Return Experience™ offers high-achieving Christian women video lessons taught directly by Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes alongside AI-assisted, Christ-centered coaching shaped by her distinctive voice and formation philosophy. This pathway supports reflection, emotional regulation, prayerful discernment, and faithful stewardship while honoring each woman’s agency.

Cultivating Human Flourishing

Across counseling, executive advisory, professional education, certification, published resources, retreats, research, strategic partnerships, and digital formation, we support individuals and institutions in living with purpose and leading with integrity. Our shared commitment is to nurture whole-person flourishing, compassionate communities, and a lasting legacy of ethical service.

Leadership Philosophy

At the heart of The Wellness Path Institute™ is a foundational conviction:

Lasting transformation begins with whole-person formation.

We believe healing, leadership, and sustainable human flourishing grow through the integration of body, soul, and spirit. Leadership develops through the ongoing work of forming character, cultivating wisdom, and practicing integrity so that our influence serves others responsibly.

For this reason, we believe:

Ethical formation must precede influence.

Sustainable leadership is strengthened by emotional regulation, self-awareness, ethical grounding, and purposeful action. We prioritize regulation and formation as foundations for strategic clarity, healthy relationships, and responsible influence.

Through the Rhodes Regulation & Results Framework™, we equip leaders, counselors, clinicians, coaches, educators, faith leaders, and organizations to:

Regulate pressure and emotional intensity
Strengthen executive functioning and ethical decision-making
Align strategy with values, purpose, and professional integrity
Cultivate resilient leadership and healthy organizational systems
Pursue sustainable results that strengthen people, organizations, and communities

We believe regulated leaders help cultivate healthy cultures. Healthy cultures strengthen organizations and communities, creating a foundation for lasting generational impact.

Our Commitment

Across The Wellness Path® Ecosystem, we are committed to advancing:

Whole-person formation
Trauma-informed counseling and ethical professional practice
Emotional regulation and responsible leadership
Faith-integrated professional education and certification
Workforce development and lifelong learning
Daily formation through reflection and intentional practice
Individual agency and responsible use of technology
Human flourishing across counseling, leadership, education, ministry, and organizational systems

Through The Return Experience™, this commitment extends to daily personal formation for high-achieving Christian women. Video lessons taught directly by Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes and AI-assisted, Christ-centered coaching support reflection, emotional regulation, prayerful discernment, and faithful stewardship while honoring each woman’s agency.

Through our five integrated pathways, institutional partnerships, research, certification programs, professional education, and daily formation experiences, we seek to cultivate individuals, leaders, and practitioners whose influence reflects wisdom, integrity, compassion, and sustainable stewardship.

All Rhodes Lead Back to The Wellness Path®, where healing, leadership, and purpose align.

Christian Trauma Therapy Rooted in Clinical Excellence

Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes, PhD, LPC, NCC, BC-TMH, is a Licensed Professional Counselor providing trauma-informed Christian therapy to individuals in Georgia, Florida, Delaware, and New Jersey through secure TeleMental Health services.

She is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and a Certified Psychosocial Cancer/Oncology Behavioral Health Specialist.

With nearly three decades of experience spanning behavioral health, clinical counseling, higher education, executive leadership, and social services, Dr. Rhodes supports clients in areas including:

Trauma recovery
Anxiety and emotional regulation
Women’s mental health
Grief, life transitions, and relationship challenges
Identity, self-worth, and purpose
The emotional impact of breast cancer and survivorship
Christian faith integration

Dr. Rhodes believes lasting transformation begins with whole-person formation. Her counseling approach honors the integration of body, soul, and spirit through trauma-informed, evidence-informed clinical care grounded in the ethical standards of professional counseling.

Christian faith and biblical wisdom are integrated with respect for each client’s beliefs, preferences, and counseling goals. Her care emphasizes compassion, collaboration, emotional safety, and respect for each person’s unique journey and pace.

Whether you are processing trauma, navigating anxiety or grief, adjusting to a life transition, or facing the emotional impact of breast cancer, counseling offers a supportive space to explore your experiences, strengthen coping skills, and move toward greater clarity, resilience, and hope.

If you are seeking a Christian trauma therapist who honors both your faith and clinical excellence, your next step toward healing can begin here.

Founder of The Wellness Path® Ecosystem

Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes is the Founder & President of The Wellness Path Institute™, an institution advancing whole-person formation through Christian faith, trauma-informed principles, ethical leadership, professional education, workforce development, and certification pathways.

The Institute’s growing global learning and formation community includes members across the United States, Canada, and Africa. Its mission of preparing leaders to care for the whole person was featured in The Voice of Canada.

Read the feature: The Wellness Path Institute™: Preparing Leaders to Care for the Whole Person

Dr. Rhodes is the architect of The Wellness Path® Ecosystem, an integrated approach expressed through five distinct pathways: Licensed Professional Counseling, Professional Performance Counseling Intensives™, Rhodes Regulation & Results Advisory™, The Wellness Path Institute™, and The Return Experience™. Together, these pathways advance healing, leadership, and purposeful living while supporting individuals, leaders, and organizations in flourishing in body, soul, and spirit.

The Return Experience™ brings this philosophy into daily life for high-achieving Christian women through video lessons taught directly by Dr. Rhodes and AI-assisted, Christ-centered coaching shaped by her distinctive voice and formation philosophy. It supports reflection, emotional regulation, prayerful discernment, and faithful stewardship while honoring each woman’s agency.

Her published resources include the Amazon.com #1 Top New Release workbook, The Wellness Path: Nurturing Your Mind, Body, and Soul with Faith and Practice®, and the Amazon.com best-selling training manual, The Wellness Path Revealed: God’s Blueprint for Wholeness – Body, Soul, and Spirit™. The training manual serves as the foundational text for the Institute’s whole-person framework, professional formation, and Wellness Path Certified Counselor™ (WPCC™) program.

Through initiatives including The Wellness Path Collaborative™, The Wellness Path Group Therapy Collective™, The Wellness Path Living Water Women’s Wellness Retreat™, research, certification, leadership development, and strategic partnerships, Dr. Rhodes continues to expand The Wellness Path® Ecosystem as a growing movement dedicated to whole-person formation, ethical leadership, and lasting transformation.

A Purpose-Driven Mission in Cancer Support

Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes’s commitment to whole-person healing was profoundly deepened through her journey as a two-time breast cancer survivor now thriving. Following diagnoses of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in 2022 and 2025, her journey included lumpectomy, radiation therapy, and bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction. These experiences reinforced a lifelong conviction: lasting transformation begins with whole-person formation.

As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Psychosocial Cancer/Oncology Behavioral Health Specialist, Dr. Rhodes provides compassionate, trauma-informed Christian counseling for individuals navigating the emotional, psychological, relational, and spiritual impact of cancer. Her secure TeleMental Health counseling services are available in Georgia, Florida, Delaware, and New Jersey.

Her approach honors the needs of the whole person throughout treatment, recovery, and survivorship. Counseling can support emotional regulation, resilience, identity, body image, relationships, grief, faith, and the exploration of renewed purpose. Each person’s experiences, preferences, and pace are respected.

Through counseling, leadership development, professional education, retreats, speaking, and writing, Dr. Rhodes integrates biblical wisdom with evidence-informed behavioral health practices to support flourishing in body, soul, and spirit. Her work brings together professional expertise, lived experience, and a commitment to compassionate, ethical care.

Her mission is to help people heal with hope, lead with integrity, and live with purpose.

Healing shapes character. Character shapes leadership. Leadership shapes legacy.