About Rosemary
Rosemary Holderman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship troubles, mood changes, and life transitions. She draws on four decades of hands-on work to listen, guide, and help clients find practical next steps. Her style is straightforward and personal, aimed at parents and adults who need clear support during hard times.
Rosemary has worked in many settings, including juvenile corrections, group homes, in-home family counseling, public mental health, and with the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Background and approach
Those roles included individual sessions, group work, and family-focused time. This range gave her experience with adolescent concerns, adult problems, trauma, grief, domestic violence issues, and adjustment after major life events. In sessions she focuses on open, honest conversation where the client sets the pace.
She uses client-centered methods and tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, and mindfulness. The work usually mixes talking, practical exercises, and skills practice tailored to what each person needs. Rosemary pays attention to everyday pressures like parenting strain, work stress, and caregiver burden.
She also addresses deeper issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, blended family challenges, and family-of-origin patterns. Her goal is to help people build clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and better coping skills. Clients can expect a calm, steady guide who listens without judgment and helps break problems into manageable steps.
Rosemary practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English, offering formats that fit modern schedules and busy family lives.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being pushed around by them, while focusing on actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, then uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for depression, anxiety, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the client leads and the therapist listens and reflects, which supports motivation and clarity.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Rosemary will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining strategies and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break or a hectic day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, share short updates, or get quick skill reminders. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid parenting, work, and caregiving demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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