About Rosa
Rosa Ogas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on practical, skills-based care. She uses clear, direct approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety and to regain a sense of control in daily life. Rosa draws on 17 years of experience across social work settings.
She practices in California and speaks English and Spanish. Her background includes helping people navigate grief, trauma and relationship strain as well as issues like addiction, self-esteem, and career stress.
Background and approach
In sessions she emphasizes simple tools clients can use between meetings. That might look like learning breathing and mindfulness exercises, testing new ways of thinking with cognitive-behavioral techniques, or practicing emotion regulation skills from dialectical behavior approaches. The focus is on what works in everyday life, not jargon.
Her approach is client-centered and strength-based. Rosa listens for practical goals and then helps create step-by-step plans. She also uses motivational interviewing tactics to support change and decision-making when someone feels stuck.
Rosa has additional experience with adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, aging concerns, and family dynamics. She welcomes people who prefer therapy in Spanish and those who need flexible online formats like video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
How Rose’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy is about listening and shaping sessions around what matters to the person. It helps uncover goals and build on existing strengths to solve everyday problems and reduce stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and problems that respond to clear skills practice and homework between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, often called DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Those tools help when strong emotions, impulsive actions, or relationship conflict make daily life harder.
Finding the right match between approach and need is part of the process. Rosa works collaboratively to decide which methods to try and adjusts plans based on how a person responds. Goals and preferences guide the choice of techniques rather than applying a single method across the board.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video lets people work face to face, phone can be a quicker check-in or helpful when internet is limited, chat supports shorter exchanges, and messaging is good for ongoing, in-the-moment coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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