About Rosemary
Rosemary Maltese brings a client-centered way of working to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Tennessee and draws on 11 years of clinical experience to help clients name problems and take small, practical steps forward. Her style is straightforward and warm, with a focus on listening first and planning next.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered for managing strong emotions and building steadier coping tools. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing supports people working through trauma and painful memories when that approach fits their needs. Many people come with struggles around self-esteem, relationships, parenting, career decisions, grief, or navigating major life transitions.
She also addresses issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, family of origin difficulties, codependency, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Practical problem-solving is mixed with attention to strengths and values. Sessions focus on setting clear goals, learning coping skills, and trying small changes between meetings.
Rosemary uses mindfulness exercises and solution-focused steps to help clients practice new habits. She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her work includes helping people cope with compassion fatigue, anger, ADHD-related challenges, and forgiveness or guilt work.
Rosemary emphasizes respect and acceptance while gently challenging patterns that limit daily life. The aim is clearer choices and more manageable days.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs in a nonjudgmental way. Online sessions allow the therapist to follow the client's lead while offering guidance and empathy for issues like low self-esteem, relationship stress, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In remote sessions, CBT can include thought records, behavior experiments, and homework assignments people complete between meetings to track progress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. DBT skill-building works well online through short coaching, skills practice, and follow-up messages to reinforce new habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and which methods fit best, and then adapt techniques as needed. This is a collaborative process aimed at practical changes that suit the client's life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection and brief coaching between sessions. These options help people fit care into busy schedules and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- 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