About Rowna
Rowna Showghi offers supportive, practical care for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, and many life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 19 years of experience and practices in Florida. She works with individuals who want clear steps and steady support to feel more capable day to day.
Rowna combines straightforward conversation with goal-focused tools. She listens first, then helps clients name what matters most. Sessions focus on skills you can try between meetings, and on small changes that add up over time.
How Rowna works
Her background spans child welfare, psychiatric research, crisis counseling, inpatient and outpatient therapy, hospice care, and work with active duty military. That variety shaped a flexible approach to many concerns, including parenting stress, caregiver strain, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and trauma and abuse. Rowna draws on several approaches to fit each person’s needs.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people act on their values, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and Client-Centered methods to keep the work grounded in the person’s own goals. She also incorporates mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when helpful.
Her sessions can include coaching-style conversations or deeper therapy work depending on what a person wants. Rowna focuses on helping clients build routines and tools that support better coping and a greater sense of control over daily life.
Rowna lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Rowna works with
The areas below are the ones Rowna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when feelings are hard. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing both thinking and behavior through practical exercises. It often helps with depression, anxiety, sleeping and eating concerns, and coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s own goals and experiences, offering empathic listening and collaborative decision making to guide progress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit the person. Sessions may include short experiments, skill practice, values work, or coaching-style conversations until the best mix is clear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and demonstration of skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching prompts, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work from different locations.
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