Rowna Showghi, LCSW

Rowna Showghi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 19 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and other life challenges. She offers a direct, practical style aimed at helping people feel more empowered and make manageable changes. Her work is grounded in everyday language and focused steps, not jargon.

Rowna draws on a mix of approaches tailored to each person’s needs. She uses client-centered techniques to listen closely and build on strengths. Cognitive behavioral ideas help break down unhelpful thoughts and habits. Mindfulness and acceptance strategies support managing hard feelings in the moment.

Her background includes child welfare, psychiatric research, crisis intervention and counseling, work with active duty military, inpatient and outpatient therapy, and hospice settings. Those roles shaped a practical way of helping people cope with complex problems and life transitions.

Rowna emphasizes that the body and mind affect each other - for example, chronic pain can increase anxiety and vice versa. She helps people notice those patterns and choose simple routines that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

People who come to her can expect collaborative planning and clear, doable steps. She also offers coaching-style support when clients want focused help making changes. Rowna welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Rowna commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Client-Centered Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to values-based actions, which can help with anxiety, grief, or life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an attentive, nonjudgmental listening stance that helps people clarify goals and build on their strengths.

She also incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice new behaviors. CBT tools are useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and many everyday stressors.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That decision is flexible and may change as progress is made.

Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, cut travel time, and allow check-ins from different locations. Because the biography emphasizes telehealth services, confirm the specific session formats offered before booking so they match what you need. Online work still focuses on concrete skills, thoughtful reflection, and building routines that support better day-to-day functioning.