About Roseann
Roseann Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Virginia who helps people struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and relationship problems. She brings 16 years of experience and a straightforward, warm style to sessions. People who feel overwhelmed or stuck often come for clear tools and steady support.
She keeps sessions friendly and down-to-earth. Conversations are often practical - identifying one or two steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses strength-based and motivational ideas to help people find their own reasons to change, paired with mindfulness practices to calm intense emotions. Roseann also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behavior patterns. When trauma or substance use is involved, she focuses on reducing overwhelming feelings and connecting clients with resources that increase stability.
Many clients work on coping skills for mood disorders, grief, or stress alongside these approaches. Her background includes experience in addiction and behavioral health settings and earlier work at a college counseling center where she supported young adults through transitions. That mix of community, campus, and clinical work informs how she approaches everyday problems and more complex mental health concerns.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Roseann emphasizes small, doable steps and a light, reassuring tone so people can open up and practice new ways of coping.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Roseann uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or depression and to try different behaviors that can change how they feel. CBT often involves short exercises, tracking thoughts, and testing small changes between sessions.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce overwhelm. Mindfulness helps people tolerate strong emotions and interrupt automatic reactions in stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Roseann collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans based on how things are going so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls are useful for a full-session conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be a good fit when camera use is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text sessions work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and trying short exercises between longer meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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