Rowna Showghi, LCSW

Rowna Showghi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, addiction, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She brings a supportive, straightforward style meant to help clients feel more capable and understood. Her approach aims to build practical skills people can use between sessions. She offers services through telehealth and works with people across a range of concerns including mood, parenting strain, and career challenges.

With 19 years of experience, she has worked in child welfare, psychiatric research, crisis counseling, inpatient and outpatient therapy, active duty military settings, and hospice. That background informs a flexible approach that looks at the whole person, including how physical pain and emotional stress interact. Rowna emphasizes learning more about how someone responds to challenges so they can choose helpful actions.

Her clinical work draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behavior tools, and mindfulness practices. Sessions focus on identifying what matters to the client, building coping skills, and creating routines that support daily functioning. She also integrates coaching techniques when appropriate to support goal setting and skill building.

Rowna aims to help people feel empowered to make changes that improve quality of life. She values collaboration and practical steps over theory alone. People who want clear tools, steady support, and a therapist who has worked in many clinical settings may find her style a good match.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Rowna uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take actions that match those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and then moving toward meaningful goals. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means the conversation centers on the person in front of her and the therapist reflects understanding and supports the client’s own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit for breaking unhelpful patterns of thought and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rowna will talk with each client about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest methods to try. Decisions about which techniques to use are collaborative and can change over time as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, client-centered conversations, and CBT skills work for remote sessions so people can practice tools between meetings and continue momentum from wherever they join.