About Rossana
Rossana Mendez Cole is a bilingual clinician who speaks English and Spanish. She offers straightforward support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Rossana uses clear, practical conversation to help clients name problems and try small changes that can make daily life easier.
She holds a LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - in Rhode Island and an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - in Florida, and brings three years of practice experience.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in homes, schools, clinics, and agencies, giving her experience with many everyday challenges. She draws on real-world settings to shape how she helps people cope. In sessions she blends approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing.
That means she helps clients spot unhelpful thoughts, test new behaviors, and find personal reasons to change. Conversations are paced to the person, with practical steps and check-ins along the way. Rossana also focuses on trauma, grief, parenting concerns, workplace stress, and issues such as ADHD and mood disorders.
She attends to cultural and life-context factors that affect how someone experiences hardship. This makes her easy to work with for people looking for down-to-earth therapeutic support. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented.
She helps clients set clear, manageable targets and reviews progress together. The aim is to leave each session with something to try between meetings.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Rossana commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding to stress and mood problems.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck about change. This approach focuses on a person’s own reasons for change and helps build confidence to take next steps, which can be useful for motivation, habit shifts, or making difficult decisions.
Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods to try first. They will adjust the plan based on what works and what feels comfortable, so treatment evolves with the client’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing prompts between meetings. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and fit sessions into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English, Spanish