About Rosario
Rosario Lopez-Rivera is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with twenty years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate identity questions. Rosario offers sessions in English and Spanish and aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical.
Her work centers on listening first and building a sense of safety. She takes a culturally humble stance, showing openness to each person's background and how their life circumstances shape emotional struggles.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental, with attention to strengths and small, achievable steps. Rosario uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to improve how people relate to others and manage relationship stress.
Mindfulness skills and emotion regulation strategies are included when they fit a person's goals. She has long experience supporting people through trauma, grief, addiction concerns, and identity-related struggles. Rosario is practiced at addressing how discrimination, immigration stress, and complicated life changes affect mental health.
Her work also covers issues like self-esteem, intimacy-related worries, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she helps clients set clear, realistic goals and practices skills between meetings. People can expect a mix of short-term coping tools and longer-term work on patterns that keep problems recurring.
Rosario aims to help clients feel more in control of their daily lives and relationships.
Approach and options for online therapy
Rosario draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based approaches to help clients address anxiety, stress, relationship patterns, and repetitive thinking. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and trying concrete changes that reduce distress. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional responses and helps people build more supported ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rosario works with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and life situation. Together they set priorities, try techniques in-session, and adjust the plan as needed so the work fits day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls support a face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option when video is hard, and live chat or text-based messaging can work for shorter check-ins or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping momentum on coping skills and long-term goals.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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