About Rowna
Rowna Showghi offers practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life transitions. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and draws on nearly two decades of experience to help clients name their struggles and find manageable steps forward. Her style is direct, caring, and focused on what will help day to day.
She uses straightforward conversation and evidence-based methods to address mood, relationships, addiction, sleep, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Rowna pays attention to how health, pain, and life circumstances connect and affect mood. She helps clients sort out which problems to tackle first and what small changes might make a real difference. Her background includes work in child welfare, psychiatric research, crisis counseling, inpatient and outpatient settings, active duty military support, and hospice.
That variety shapes a practical approach tailored to each person’s needs. She combines coaching with therapy to help people move from insight to action. Sessions focus on building skills people can use outside therapy.
Rowna often uses mindfulness, behavioral strategies, and values-based planning to reduce anxiety and improve functioning. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and relationship communication issues. People who choose her often want clear steps and realistic goals.
Rowna helps create routines and coping plans that fit daily life. Her aim is to help clients gain more control over symptoms and feel steadier in day-to-day living.
How Rowna’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small steps toward those values. It helps when people feel stuck and want practical ways to move forward despite difficult thoughts or feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches tools to change unhelpful habits. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing cravings or mood shifts. Mindfulness Therapy involves learning to notice thoughts and body sensations without judgement and can reduce reactivity to stress and improve focus.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick or blend methods so the work fits daily life and the client’s priorities.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief coaching into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English