About Rosario
Rosario Lopez-Rivera welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with twenty years of experience and offers bilingual care in English and Spanish. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, and she aims to help clients feel understood and respected from the first conversation.
Rosario centers cultural humility in her work. She listens for how identity, immigration experiences, and social pressures shape a person’s difficulties.
Background and approach
She often supports people facing issues tied to gender identity and sexual orientation, as well as struggles with substance use, anger, or mood changes. In sessions she draws on practical methods to help people manage symptoms and build skills. That can include looking at the thoughts that drive emotions and testing new ways of responding.
She also uses mindfulness practices to help people stay grounded in tense moments. Rosario emphasizes partnership. She works together with each person to set clear, realistic goals and to try strategies that fit their life.
She pays attention to communication patterns, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and body image concerns when they come up. People connect with her for help with trauma and abuse, sexual and intimacy questions, HIV / AIDS related stress, and issues linked to immigration or isolation.
She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible and accessible.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions explore those patterns by talking through key relationships and practicing new ways to connect and communicate. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change them; online meetings are used to set goals, review homework, and track progress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and manage strong emotions, and these practices can be practiced during video or phone sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rosario will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will suggest methods that fit those needs. The process is collaborative - she adapts strategies based on what helps in real life and checks in regularly to adjust the plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, or when scheduling a longer session is difficult. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and try different formats to see what works best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish