Rosemary Maltese, LPC

Rosemary Maltese is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee with 11 years of clinical experience. She uses a person-focused approach to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, and the challenges that come with life transitions. Rosemary aims to create a calm space where clients can talk about what matters most to them and begin making practical changes.

Her style blends client-centered work with solution-focused techniques and cognitive behavioral therapy to set clear goals and practical steps. She also uses mindfulness practices to help with overwhelming emotions and EMDR when trauma memories are part of the problem. Sessions emphasize strengths and small experiments clients can try between meetings.

Rosemary pays attention to how family of origin issues and relationship patterns shape current struggles. She uses a systems perspective when addressing relationship dynamics and commitment concerns, while keeping the focus on individual growth. For people facing midlife questions, career shifts, or feelings of emptiness, she helps clarify values and next steps.

Clients can expect encouragement, clear strategies, and space to process grief, anger, or loss. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, attachment difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Practical tools for improving communication, managing ADHD-related challenges, and rebuilding self-esteem are part of her work.

Therapy with Rosemary involves collaboration and steady pacing. She helps people move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices and healthier patterns. Those interested in starting are invited to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session.

How her approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping clients feel understood. Online or in person, this approach helps people name their priorities and make choices that fit their lives. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then tests new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and work or relationship stress because it offers clear experiments to try between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful when anger, emotional overwhelm, or relationship patterns are causing problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rosemary will review your goals, past experiences, and preferences and then suggest what to try first. That plan can change as you learn what helps; she treats the process as a collaboration rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy day and reducing travel time. Some people prefer audio check-ins when they want a quicker touchpoint without video, while others choose longer video sessions for deeper conversation and exercises. The therapist's specific session formats should be confirmed before booking, so check the available options and select what fits your schedule and comfort.