Rowna Showghi
Compassionate, practical support for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rowna
Rowna Showghi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on practical support for people facing stress, parenting concerns, grief, depression, anxiety, and related life changes. She aims to help parents and adults find clearer ways to cope. Her approach is straightforward and grounded in helping people make usable changes that fit their daily life.
She brings 19 years of experience in mental health roles. Those roles include child welfare, psychiatric research, crisis intervention and counseling, inpatient and outpatient therapy, hospice care, and work with active duty military.
Background and approach
This variety informs her ability to notice how different parts of life interact, like how pain and anxiety can feed each other. Rowna uses client-centered methods and evidence-based techniques to guide sessions. She emphasizes learning about patterns and then trying small, practical steps that can be repeated.
The goal is to build routines that improve overall quality of life rather than rely on one-off fixes. Her work also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness practices when they suit a person’s needs. She blends these approaches to fit the individual rather than sticking rigidly to a single method.
Rowna provides telehealth options and coaching-style support alongside psychotherapy. She invites people to explore what matters to them and to develop sustainable habits that support those priorities.
How her therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by focusing on meaningful activity rather than trying to eliminate difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for depression, anxiety, and coping with everyday problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress in the moment.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Rowna will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then combine methods that feel most useful. She tailors the plan over time, adjusting techniques until they fit the person’s life and needs.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. This flexibility makes it easier to keep consistent work between sessions and to use coaching and therapy in ways that fit busy family routines and varied daily demands.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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