About Rosa
Rosa Ogas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 17 years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a calm, direct style to sessions. Her work often centers on practical strategies people can use right away.
Rosa uses client-centered methods to help people name problems and set realistic goals. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior therapy for emotional regulation and stress.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven into sessions when they fit the person's needs. Many clients come for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, stress, or help with parenting and life changes. Rosa also supports people facing grief, trauma, addiction, and relationship or family stress.
She pays attention to cultural background and how acculturation or family roles affect daily life. Sessions focus on building practical tools. People learn skills for managing strong emotions, coping with setbacks, improving communication, and organizing daily tasks.
Rosa emphasizes small, doable steps that add up over time. She has worked across diverse social work settings and applies a strengths-based approach. That means she helps people identify what already works for them and expand those strengths.
Rosa welcomes clients who prefer sessions in Spanish or English and can work with people across locations in California and beyond. Rosa asks new clients to set clear, short-term goals and checks progress regularly. The focus is on finding strategies that fit each person's life and schedule.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online care
Rosa often uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes understanding each person's goals and building the sessions around what matters most to them. That approach helps when someone needs a collaborative space to talk through priorities and make a plan.She also employs cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify patterns of thinking that make problems worse and teach concrete skills to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress because it focuses on small behavior and thinking changes that people can practice between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills appear in work on emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Those tools help when strong emotions or impulsive reactions get in the way of everyday tasks and relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rosa will talk with each person about their goals, try a few techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The aim is to find strategies that fit the client's life and feels doable rather than forcing one model.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders or brief reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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