About Osa
Osa Holmes is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 25 years of practice in mental health and addiction settings. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and substance use concerns. Parents reading this will find straightforward care and clear attention to pressing problems.
Her approach is practical and person-centered. She listens first, then helps people set small, doable goals. Sessions often include skills for managing strong feelings, steps to reduce addictive behavior, and ways to rebuild trust and connection.
How Osa works
Mindfulness and cognitive tools are used to change habits that cause pain. Osa uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect present reactions. She also draws on motivational interviewing to support readiness for change.
The focus is on what works for each person, not on fitting someone into a treatment box. Her background includes decades in clinical, school, and community settings. That experience informs practical strategies for parenting strains, blended family issues, and caregiver stress.
She has done assessments in behavioral health and juvenile systems and spent years teaching and supervising others in the field. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in Florida and beyond. Osa aims to help people move from crisis and overwhelm toward clearer choices and steadier daily functioning.
Osa lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Osa works with
The areas below are the ones Osa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and remote sessions that fit your life
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and closeness. It helps people understand why they react strongly in relationships and find new ways to feel safer and more connected.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and to build routines that reduce anxiety, depression, and addictive patterns.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what isn’t.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls recreate a face-to-face session when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes between sessions or hold a session without being on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping focus on the work people want to do.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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