About Rosa
Rosa Ogas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a straightforward, practical style to sessions. She centers sessions on the person in front of her.
Rosa uses client-centered methods to listen closely and help people name what matters most. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness and dialectical behavior strategies are folded in to teach emotion regulation and moment-to-moment awareness.
How Rosa works
Rosa has spent many years working across diverse communities in California. That background gives her experience with cultural and family issues, acculturation concerns, and the stresses of caregiving. She has supported people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, parenting strain, ADHD, and relationship challenges.
Her approach emphasizes strengths and small practical steps. Sessions focus on learning concrete skills - like grounding, problem-solving, and communication techniques - that can be practiced between meetings. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find personal motivation for change.
Rosa offers services in both English and Spanish and accepts international clients. Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She aims to help people find clearer next steps and feel more capable handling day-to-day stressors.
Rosa lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Rosa works with
The areas below are the ones Rosa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How practical approaches translate to online therapy
Rosa often uses client-centered therapy to make space for what matters most to each person. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and guiding people to set their own goals and next steps. It works well for a wide range of concerns where feeling heard is the first step.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is especially useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it breaks problems into manageable steps. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques help with emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness by teaching concrete skills for handling intense feelings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rosa will talk with the person about their goals and try strategies that fit their needs and pace. Together they adjust methods over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video allows a fuller face-to-face exchange, phone calls are useful when bandwidth or camera use is an issue, and messaging formats can work well for brief check-ins or practice between sessions. These options give more flexibility for scheduling and staying consistent with treatment.
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