Rosa Howard-Poston
Compassionate clinician with practical tools
LMHC, LCMHC North Carolina
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Rosa
Rosa Howard-Poston is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship difficulties, and a wide range of life transitions.
Background and approach
She brings a practical, interactive manner to sessions and emphasizes collaboration, helping clients develop tools for coping with challenges such as parenting struggles, career changes, intimacy concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue. Her practice also addresses family and attachment matters, communication and codependency problems, and recovery from domestic violence or substance use concerns.
Rosa blends evidence-informed techniques with a warm, client-centered stance that prioritizes each person’s goals. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside mindfulness, emotionally-focused strategies, and motivational interviewing to help clients notice patterns, regulate emotions, and make concrete changes.
Licensed in New York and North Carolina as LMHC and LCMHC, she offers services in English and Spanish and adapts session length and focus to the needs presented. Those seeking a supportive professional who pairs practical skills training with empathetic listening may find her approach straightforward and empowering.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rosa frequently integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy into her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more effective patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and problematic coping. Client-centered work emphasizes empathy, active listening, and collaboration so that clients feel heard and helped to clarify their own goals.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship or attachment issues are central, helping clients explore and organize emotional responses to improve connection and understanding. These methods are described and adapted together with each person so the therapeutic pathway fits their needs rather than following a single formula; the therapist and client decide collaboratively which approaches to emphasize based on goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care during transitions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to practice many of the same techniques that are used in person, supporting emotional insight, skills practice, and goal-focused work in ways that suit each client’s life.
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Experience
25+ years
Licensed
New York, North Carolina
Languages
English, Spanish