I live in Orange County, CA with my family and two dogs. I graduated with my 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.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist (LMFT #149958) and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC #16141). I am also an Adjunct Professor of Psychology teaching theories of counseling and psychotherapy and developmental psychology in the Master's program at Pepperdine GSEP. I am trained in both EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and The Trauma Resiliency Model. Recently, I joined PHR (Physicians for Human Rights) and the Red Cross Disaster Mental Health (DMH) Team engaging in Humanitarian work.
I have 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. My education and experiences have provided me with the foundation to serve and address a wide range of backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses and therapeutic issues.
I enjoy working with individuals questioning life, handling depression and anxiety. I also look at the bigger picture, looking at the culture and the world around them 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. I am currently diving into multiculturalism work in the space of decolonization and how internalized racism affects society as a social unconscious. I think there is a substantial amount work to be done there, so this is where my passion lies in working with trauma and multiculturalism.
In my free time I like to read, exercise, cuddle with my dogs and I engage in amateur photography.
I am a proud member of PSI CHI, ACA, APA and CAMFT.
I think like many, my own past experiences led me to therapy myself. For me, it was a very difficult thing to reach out for help. It took me a while not only to reach out, but to find the right fit. From there, I decided that I wanted to go into therapy to be a therapist myself. I believe in therapy, I believe in the work that I do. I know what therapy has done for me, so I hope to give it to others. To be able to understand myself and the world around me from social issues, to cultural issues, to my own familial issues makes me feel peaceful and not feel so alone in this world. It makes me feel like I don't have to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders. My work comes from my own experiences.
Our first session is an intake session where we get to know each other and the issues you are looking to work on. I don't mind when you have questions. I like to be direct, open and transparent. I typically don't shy away from a "type" of client because what I have found is that we humans are so dynamic and so complex that to say your "anxiety" is all that there is to you would be closing the door on other issues and concerns before you even start. I think we have to take into account intersectionality of an individual to really work on deeper issues. Therefore, therapy does take a while and we mark progress along the way as it comes up.
I participate in a lot of cultural courses and psychodynamic courses. I like to learn more about capitalism, the effects of capitalism on an individual and systemic issues that contribute to an individual's suffering. I am interested in all of the "isms" and how they truly play a part in our depression, anxiety and social traumas.
Rosa Sicairos Therapy MA, LMFT #149958, LPCC #1614
Supervised by: Dr. Ricardo Gonsalves LMFT#MFC4857
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