About Rose
Rose Topal is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and relationship struggles. She speaks plainly and listens with curiosity so clients feel heard from the first session. Her style is warm and interactive and aims to empower people during hard life changes.
Rose has eight years of experience as a therapist and more than 15 years working as a life and career coach.
Background and approach
She has supported people coping with trauma, abuse, addictions, grief, and shifts in career or family roles. Her background includes work with mood disorders, sleep and eating concerns, and identity and intimacy questions. In sessions she uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy for emotional regulation and acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and committed action. Attachment-based ideas inform how she talks about relationships and patterns that repeat across a lifetime. Rose adapts each meeting to what the client needs that day.
Conversations may include skill practice, problem-solving, or looking at how past experiences shape current reactions. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on small, achievable steps toward feeling better. Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals and plans are created together.
Rose offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Rose commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and sleep or eating issues. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that align with those values, often useful during life transitions and coping with persistent symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect present connections and can guide work on intimacy, trust, and recurring relationship conflicts.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what is most helpful, so the focus is on practical steps and measurable progress together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are good for in-depth conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, on-the-go coping strategies, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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