About Gloria
Dr. Gloria Aquino Sosa focuses on client-centered care that centers each person’s values and lived experience. She is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist, academic, and personal counselor.
Her approach is direct and human, aiming to help people find practical ways forward. She works with stress, anxiety, depression, and career concerns. Relationship issues, intimacy questions, grief, and parenting strains are also within her focus.
Background and approach
She has guided people facing addictions, ADHD, and challenges tied to identity and belonging. Her work often uses narrative and Jungian ideas to help people make sense of life stories and inner patterns. Mindfulness practices and client-centered listening are woven into sessions to build awareness and emotion regulation.
She describes her style as authentic, interactive, and sincere. Dr. Sosa has long experience supporting BIPOC and bilingual Spanish-English speakers through immigration-related stress, discrimination, and intercultural concerns.
She also helps people cope with trauma, abuse, and long-term mental health struggles. She combines relational cultural perspectives with psychodynamic and strengths-based tools. In sessions she collaborates with each person to set goals and a plan that fits their life.
She brings a pragmatic focus to help people increase self-awareness, move through change, and recover a sense of agency. Her musical background and life experience inform a warm, straightforward way of working.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s voice and priorities, focusing on empathetic listening and working at the client’s pace to set meaningful goals. It helps with anxiety, relationship questions, and decisions during life changes.Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their lives. By separating the problem from the person, this approach can reduce shame and open up new possibilities for action and identity work.
Mindfulness Therapy uses present-moment exercises and attention training to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation. It can be helpful for stress, anxiety, and managing strong emotions during life transitions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best, based on needs, goals, and preferences. This process is flexible and can change as people progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can work for quick check-ins and ongoing accountability. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to maintain continuity across a busy schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English, Spanish