About Roger
Roger Schwarz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 27 years of practice in California. He focuses on relationships, stress, anxiety, and addictions while aiming to help people move toward more satisfying lives. He frames clients as the experts on their own stories and offers steady support as they make changes.
Roger uses straightforward, practical conversation in sessions. He listens for patterns in relationships and family history that influence current problems.
Background and approach
Then he helps people try small, concrete steps to feel less overwhelmed and more connected to what matters. His work includes issues like codependency, divorce and separation, fatherhood concerns, and family of origin problems. He also addresses obsessive-compulsive behaviors, social anxiety and phobia, sexual and process addictions, jealousy, infidelity, and struggles with emptiness.
Roger brings a calm, measured presence to these topics and focuses on realistic strategies people can use day to day. Therapy draws on attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to improve connection and trust in relationships. He also uses client-centered conversation and cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
These approaches are mixed to fit each person’s needs rather than following a single script. People who prefer clear, collaborative work tend to do well with his style. He aims to support parents and individuals dealing with relationship strain, addictive patterns, and anxiety so they can pursue clearer choices and more satisfying relationships.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Roger blends attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral techniques to address how past relationships shape current reactions and to change unhelpful thought-action patterns. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds affect trust and closeness, which can help with relationship worry and jealousy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify anxious or negative thoughts and replace them with more useful behaviors and habits.He also draws on client-centered and emotionally-focused ideas to center the client's experience and strengthen emotional connection. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that fit, and adjust as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make work on anxiety, relationships, and addiction more manageable. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for short updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats add flexibility so therapy can fit into busy lives and changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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