Jasmine Owarish-Gross

Jasmine Owarish-Gross is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience. She began her career in inpatient medical and psychiatric settings and now provides counseling to teens and adults. Jasmine emphasizes a strengths-based way of working and encourages people to notice the abilities they already have.

She also brings a sports medicine background that informs her focus on behavior change. That background shapes a whole-body approach to health - attention to sleep, movement, and routine alongside talking. Jasmine believes physical habits and emotional well-being influence each other.

In sessions she uses practical tools drawn from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Those tools help with stress, anxiety, mood shifts, grief, anger, and problems such as obsessive or compulsive thinking. She often breaks strategies into small steps people can try between meetings.

Jasmine aims for calm, clear sessions where goals are set together. She treats concerns around relationships, parenting stress, career changes, addiction-related patterns, and self-esteem struggles. She also works with people facing trauma, sleep difficulties, and impulsive behaviors.

If someone is new to counseling she focuses on building steady skills first. The work can include skill practice, behavior changes, and short-term coaching to support daily life. Jasmine values the commitment it takes to ask for help and works with clients to make progress they can track.

How Jasmine’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, grief, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses simple experiments and exercises to change unhelpful patterns. That approach often helps with panic, mood shifts, and obsessive thinking. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to reduce impulsive reactions and improve relationships.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they pick strategies to try and adjust them over time based on what fits and what helps.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also allow work on skills between meetings in the context of everyday life. Licensed professionals can guide which techniques to use and how to apply them in daily routines.