About Osa
Osa Holmes is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of practice. She focuses on everyday problems that wear people down, such as stress, anxiety, mood changes, addictions, and ADHD. She writes and speaks plainly and aims to help people find clearer steps forward.
Her style is direct and warm. She listens without judgment and helps people name the specific patterns that cause trouble. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented when that fits, and more exploratory when deeper history matters.
Background and approach
Parents who feel overwhelmed will find simple strategies they can try between sessions. Osa blends approaches to match the person in front of her. She uses client-centered work to follow a person's pace, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift thoughts and habits, and attachment-informed ideas to repair relationship strain.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added when people want tools for focus and motivation. She brings two and a half decades of experience in mental health, substance use, and educational settings. That background includes assessments, classroom work, and supervision of other clinicians.
Much of her work has involved helping people move through trauma, grief, addiction, and major life transitions. Osa practices in Florida and communicates in English. She accepts international clients and offers several ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Osa commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered therapy means sessions follow the person's concerns and pace, creating room to talk through what matters most. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on spotting unhelpful thoughts and habits and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.She also brings attachment-informed ideas into online work. That approach looks at how early and current relationships shape reactions and coping, which can help with intimacy issues, family stress, and some trauma-related patterns. The therapist will talk with each person about which approaches feel like the best fit and adjust over time in collaboration with the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can help people keep progress going between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules and to continue care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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