About Roosevelt
Roosevelt Jordan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. He also supports those coping with depression, eating and intimacy-related issues, bipolar mood challenges, and life transitions. Roosevelt provides direct, compassionate listening to help people feel heard and understood.
He uses straightforward conversation and practical tools in sessions. Clients can expect calm, focused attention and guidance tailored to their situation.
Background and approach
Roosevelt blends approaches that encourage self-awareness and small, doable changes. With two decades as a social work clinician, Roosevelt draws on long experience working in California care settings. He emphasizes building trust first, then working together to set simple goals.
He pays attention to emotional, social, and spiritual parts of life as they arise in therapy. Roosevelt often uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. He incorporates client-centered listening and mindfulness practices to increase awareness and reduce overwhelm.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding reasons and steps to change addictive or risky behaviors. He also has focus in areas such as HIV/AIDS, hospice and end-of-life counseling, obsessive-compulsive concerns, personality issues, phobias, process addictions, self-harm, and recovery from sexual assault and abuse. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged in formats that fit clients' daily lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Roosevelt draws on cognitive behavioral work to help people notice thoughts and habits that keep them stuck and try practical alternatives. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns tied to addictions or anger. He also practices client-centered therapy which centers on empathetic listening and helping people find their own solutions. That approach supports self-awareness, confidence, and clearer decision making.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Roosevelt will discuss goals and preferences and suggest methods that match each person's needs. He adapts techniques over time, checking in to see what helps and what should change so the plan fits the client.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging lets people send notes or thoughts between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily rhythms, while keeping focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English