Biography
About Rosa
Rosa lives in Orange County, CA with her family and two dogs. She graduated with a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology with honors.
Rosa is a dually Licensed Marriage and Family therapist (LMFT #149958) and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC #16141) in California. She is also a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Ohio (Ohio LPCC #E.2505938). Rosa is also an Adjunct Professor of Psychology teaching in the Master's program at Pepperdine GSEP. Rosa is trained in both EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and The Trauma Resiliency Model (Levels 1 and 2).
Rosa has passionately served a diverse range of individuals since 2019, proudly offering care and resources to patients of various ages, races, sex, nationality, and citizenship status. Rosa’s education and experiences have provided her with the foundation to serve and address a wide range of backgrounds and therapeutic issues.
Rosa enjoys working with individuals questioning life, handling depression and anxiety. She also looks at the bigger picture, looking at the culture and the world around us to discuss unconscious factors resulting in depression and anxiety from systemic issues to personal issues. Usually, there are many things happening in our lives that get addressed and processed through together in therapy. Rosa is currently diving into multiculturalism work in the space of how this affects society as a social unconscious. She believes that there is a substantial amount of work to be done there, so this is where her passion lies in working with trauma and multiculturalism.
In her free time, Rosa likes to read, exercise, cuddle with her dogs and she engages in amateur photography.
