About Manga
Manga Omasombo is a licensed clinical social worker who centers sessions on the person in front of her. She uses a direct, respectful style to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and ADHD. Manga speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life.
With five years of practice as a LICSW and LCSW, she draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build a trusting space. That means the conversation follows the client's priorities and strengths.
Background and approach
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Sessions usually look like problem-focused talk, goal-setting, and small experiments to try between meetings. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change.
Solution-Focused Therapy keeps work brief and targeted when quick progress is the aim. Manga has worked with people facing trauma, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, career shifts, compassion fatigue, and issues like hoarding or HIV/AIDS-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, and sexual intimacy worries.
People can expect clear suggestions and collaborative planning. Manga will listen, reflect what she hears, and then offer options to test in real life. Her approach emphasizes small, manageable steps and steady progress over time.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Manga often uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work focused on each person's priorities. That approach emphasizes listening, reflection, and building on strengths to address issues like relationship strain, grief, or low self-esteem. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles with focus and routine, and sleep or eating concerns. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone feels unsure about change; it helps clarify goals and strengthen motivation. Finding the right approach is collaborative. Manga will talk with each person about goals, past attempts, and what feels most useful. From there she tailors sessions and checks in to adjust the plan if needed. Online sessions offer flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules and let people try different formats to see what suits them best.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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