About Rosa
Rosa Ogas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of experience. She works in California and speaks English and Spanish. Rosa uses client-centered care to help people feel heard and understood from the start.
She often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies. Those approaches help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of coping. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to support emotion regulation and stress management.
Background and approach
Rosa has supported people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction concerns. She helps with parenting challenges, relationship strain, and career stress. She also addresses trauma and abuse, anger, and issues linked to caregiving and chronic illness.
Her practice pays attention to cultural background and life transitions. Being bicultural and fluent in Spanish helps her talk about acculturation, family system conflicts, and related stresses. She draws on motivation and solution-focused ideas to set clear goals and small steps forward.
Rosa uses a strengths-based style that focuses on practical tools. Sessions cover concrete skills for coping, communication, and managing strong emotions. People who choose her work together to build plans that fit their daily life and values.
Using practical approaches online to build coping skills
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people clarify their goals so they feel understood and guided. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple exercises to change patterns that cause distress and helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rosa will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best. She draws on client-centered listening, CBT tools, and DBT-informed skills as needed, and she revises the plan based on what is helping and what the person prefers.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction for deeper work, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or video isn’t convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or when time is tight. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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