About Rosanne
Rosanne Smithwick is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 18 years of experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, work through grief, and build motivation and self-esteem. Her approach is straightforward and supportive for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
She focuses on practical steps to cope with addictions and manage mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms. She also supports people wrestling with life changes, anger, and questions about identity and relationships.
Background and approach
Rosanne pays attention to concerns common in adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, codependency, and women's issues. Sessions aim to be a calm space to talk through what is happening now. Rosanne listens without judgment and helps identify small, achievable goals.
She encourages developing skills that can be used between sessions to handle difficult moments. Her work includes elements of coaching to boost motivation and forward movement. She helps clients clarify life purpose, practice self-love, and strengthen confidence.
The focus is on real-world change rather than labels or lengthy assessments. People meet with Rosanne for short-term problem solving or longer work on deeper patterns. She offers phone and video sessions as well as live chat and text-based messaging.
Her style is warm, practical, and goal-oriented to help people take the next steps they want.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Rosanne uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping skills and behavior change. One common method helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. This approach teaches simple tools to use when stress starts to rise.Another approach emphasizes building routines and small actions to change behaviors linked to addictions, motivation, or mood fluctuations. These steps are concrete and aim to create steady progress rather than sudden fixes. A coaching-oriented focus is also used to set clear goals and maintain momentum toward life purpose and self-esteem improvements.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to try methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Adjustments are made along the way so the plan fits how the person responds and what feels most helpful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people connect visually for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short tasks, or when someone prefers written communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English