Rhonda Audia

Rhonda Audia, LCSW, is the founder and director of Tampa Family Conflict Center. The mission of Tampa Family Conflict Center is to help individuals, couples, and families enhance their relationships and reduce their conflict.

Rhonda Audia a licensed clinical social worker and marriage and family expert with over 25 years experience helping high conflict couples and families.Rhonda Audia received her Master’s degree in social work from George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis in 1985.

Rhonda has many years of advanced training in marriage and family therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method. Rhonda is a Qualified PREPARE/ENRICH clinician. For a decade, Rhonda Audia has specialized in treating "high conflict" couples. Her business, Guru for Two Counseling Center was a huge success in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In 2011, Rhonda moved to sunny Tampa, Florida to follow her husband, broadcaster Craig Kopp, when he took a host/reporter position at WUSF. Rhonda decided shortly thereafter to expand her mission to help divorcing couples and families with the potential for high conflict- and Tampa Family Conflict Center was born. In January, 2012, Rhonda received her Certificate in Parenting Coordination Training. She is qualified as a Parenting Coordinator in accordance with section 61.125, Florida Statutes. She is now completing her mentorship in Family Mediation and looks forward to certification in the Fall of 2012.

Rhonda is known in the Tampa Bay area as the "Dumb Fight Expert." She helps clients accept that conflict in relationships is normal, necessary, and inevitable but "dumb fights" are optional.