About Rosemary
Rosemary Maltese is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and parenting concerns. Rosemary blends practical talk with body-centered awareness to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life.
She uses somatic approaches alongside client-centered care and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means sessions may include attention to physical reactions, empathetic listening, and concrete steps to change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at improving emotional regulation, coping skills, and clearer communication. Her background includes work in a range of settings with people facing trauma, grief, codependency, and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns, family-of-origin issues, and challenges tied to career or life purpose.
Her experience spans common and complex difficulties alike. Rosemary emphasizes a strengths-based, solution-focused outlook. She helps clients set realistic goals and practices that fit daily life.
EMDR and DBT approaches are also part of her toolkit when appropriate for trauma processing or building emotional skills. Therapy can include conversations about parenting, forgiveness, guilt, and compassion fatigue. Rosemary aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can explore change at their own pace.
The focus stays practical: clearer choices, calmer responses, and small steps toward well-being.
How somatic and evidence-based tools fit into online therapy
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotions show up in the body. In online sessions this might mean noticing breathing, tension, or posture and using simple grounding or movement techniques to ease strong feelings. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathic listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and can explore their thoughts and goals at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced between sessions to build new habits.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about current needs, past experiences, and what methods feel comfortable. Together they decide which approach or combination makes the most sense and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, practice skills in real time, and check in between appointments. For many people, remote options increase access to consistent support and let therapists use somatic attention, client-centered listening, and CBT tools in ways that fit everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English