About Manga
Manga Omasombo is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and offers practical help for everyday struggles. Her style is straightforward and respectful.
She aims to make the first steps less overwhelming for people seeking change. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationships, family concerns, and depression. Manga also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping concerns, and parenting strain.
Background and approach
She includes care for anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar challenges, and coping with life changes. Her work draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy are used to set doable goals and keep momentum.
Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented while staying attentive to each person's experience. Manga has five years of professional experience and practices in Virginia. She works with people who face first responder stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, social anxiety, and phobia, and she also addresses concerns like hoarding, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and HIV/AIDS related issues.
Sessions are conducted in English and international clients are accepted. Her approach is collaborative: she listens first, then helps choose strategies that fit a person's life. She encourages small steps and clear goals, with regular review to see what is helping.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Manga blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Client-Centered Therapy means she listens closely and follows what matters most to the person, helping them name strengths and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood.Choosing the right approach is a team process. The therapist will talk through options, try strategies, and adjust based on what the client finds useful. Goals and methods are reviewed together so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and shared materials, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and help people keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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