About Rosemary
Rosemary Holderman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 40 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, or ADHD. Rosemary writes straightforward plans with clients and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
She has worked in many settings, including juvenile corrections, group homes, in-home family services, public mental health, and with the Department of Children and Families in Florida.
Background and approach
That background shaped a hands-on style for both individual and group work. She has experience supporting people dealing with trauma, domestic violence, anger, and life transitions. Rosemary emphasizes an honest, respectful relationship.
She centers therapy on each client’s goals and lets the person lead sessions while offering guidance and tools. Sessions include discussion of practical coping skills, communication patterns, and steps to manage everyday challenges. Her practice draws on approaches like client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment ideas, and dialectical behavior principles.
These methods are used in simple ways to help with emotional regulation, decision making, and behavior change. People who choose Rosemary can expect empathic listening and clear guidance. She aims to help clients build routines and skills that fit their lives.
The work moves at a pace the client sets, with steady support through both setbacks and progress.
Therapeutic approaches adaptable to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that match your values; it can help when worry, avoidance, or life changes get in the way of everyday functioning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to interrupt unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related routines. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person's experience, with the therapist offering empathy and nonjudgmental listening so clients can find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, strengths, and preferences with each person and suggest methods that match those needs. Together they will try strategies and adapt them over time so the work feels useful and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular sessions and try techniques consistently.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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