The women showing up in your clinic aren't broken.
Neither are you.

Rhonda Parker, DNP, APRN — clinician and framework developer, building identity-centered care for trauma-exposed women in Appalachia.

About Me

When I returned in 2020, drawn by calling, by family, by the pull of something I didn't yet have words for, I found what I already knew was there. The most complex, resilient, underserved women in the country. Carrying wounds that no medication was ever going to touch alone. Navigating systems that were never designed with them in mind.

I came back with a doctorate, a clinical specialty in addiction and psychiatric care, and a framework taking shape in the back of my mind. I came back with the memory of my grandmother, the center of everything, the healer, the keeper, and the understanding that the women I was returning to serve were carrying generations of what she had carried.

The Female Trauma Reconstruction Model was born from watching those women. From understanding that stabilization alone was never going to be enough. That what trauma does to identity, the survival self it builds, the agency it erodes, the spiritual coherence it fractures, requires something clinical frameworks were not yet naming.

THE WORK

For clinicians and colleagues

The Female Trauma Reconstruction Model proposes that durable recovery for trauma-exposed women requires identity reconstruction across five domains — not stabilization alone. Developed through clinical observation in rural West Virginia, the FTRM is currently under peer review at the Journal for Nurse Practitioners and the International Journal of Addiction Nursing.

Rhonda serves as AANP State Representative and APRN Chair for the West Virginia Nurses Association, and speaks on identity-centered addiction care, rural women's health, and advanced practice leadership.

Publications in progress — Speaking inquiries — Clinical consultation

For women seeking healing

Looking for clinical care? If you're seeking treatment for your mental, hormonal, or sexual health, Leona Health & Wellness is where I see patients.

https://www.myleonahealth.com

Unbreakable Spirit — From the Inside: A Doctor's Guide to Mental Wellness When Chronic Illness Changes Everything is available now on Amazon. Written from inside the experience of living with rheumatoid arthritis since age twenty-eight.

The Ronda and Rhonda Show: Women Unscripted.  Conversations women aren't supposed to be having, out loud, unfiltered, and long overdue. Two providers, no script, talking about the things patients bring into the room that never make it into the chart. Launching August 21.

The Ronda and Rhonda Show: Women Unscripted: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRondaandRhondaShow

For organizations

Healthcare systems, treatment programs, and nursing education need clinical frameworks built for the complexity their patients actually carry. The FTRM offers a gender-responsive, identity-centered approach to addiction and trauma care that extends existing practice without replacing it.

Rhonda provides consultation and training for organizations developing or expanding gender-specific programming for trauma-exposed women in rural and underserved settings.

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