Rosa Salja-Mota

Rosa Salja-Mota is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience. She works in both English and Spanish and focuses on meeting people where they are. Rosa emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental approach when someone reaches out for help.

She uses a client-centered way of working, which means sessions start from the person's current feelings and needs. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking and build practical coping skills. Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies are woven in when they fit a person's goals.

Rosa helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, anger, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She also has experience with hospice and end-of-life counseling and with Seasonal Affective Disorder. Her bilingual skills support Spanish-speaking clients as well as English speakers.

In sessions she aims to create space for people to feel heard and to try new skills. That can mean practicing grounding exercises, testing different ways of thinking, or learning emotional regulation tools. She describes therapy as a collaborative process with practical steps.

To begin, people are asked to use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. Scheduling follows based on the therapist's availability and the service's process.

How these approaches work in online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to a person's immediate concerns. The therapist follows the person's lead, helping them name feelings and decide what to work on next. This approach often helps people who want a supportive space to sort through strong emotions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In practice this means identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new ways of thinking and acting. CBT can be helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and anger by giving concrete tools to use between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose or blend methods based on goals and preferences. That means they may try client-centered listening at first and then add CBT or DBT skills if those fit the situation.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking. The therapist offers services through the platform's scheduling process, and session logistics are arranged after the matching questionnaire. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people meet without travel time.