RoseAnn Connerley, LMFT

RoseAnn Connerley is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 26 years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She aims to make beginning therapy less daunting by offering a calm space to talk and to figure out what matters most to each person.

Her approach is conversational and focused on practical steps. Sessions center on clear goals and small, manageable changes. She listens for patterns in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps people try different ways of responding when old habits cause pain.

RoseAnn draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to address how people relate to themselves and others. She uses client-centered principles to keep the work grounded in each person’s values and pace. That means she moves at a rate that feels doable while offering straightforward tools to handle symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.

She also attends to issues that often sit beneath current struggles, such as family of origin dynamics, codependency, and attachment wounds. For someone dealing with loss, trauma, or a difficult breakup, she offers a mix of coping skills and relational repair work to reduce distress and rebuild trust in relationships.

Sessions are offered in English to people in California. RoseAnn emphasizes collaboration: together clients set goals, try new strategies between sessions, and track what's helpful so therapy stays practical and focused.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

RoseAnn uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety or lift mood. CBT is hands-on and works well for concerns like worry, obsessive thinking, and low mood because it focuses on practical steps and experiments.

She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy and emotionally-focused ideas to look at how past and current relationship patterns affect feelings of safety and connection. These approaches help when relationship strain, codependency, or attachment wounds are part of the problem by focusing on emotional experiences and ways to repair interactions.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. RoseAnn will discuss which methods seem like the best fit, set clear goals together, and adjust the plan as progress is made. She aims to match techniques to each person's needs and preferences rather than use a one-size-fits-all method.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat works well for quick check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other commitments while keeping the focus on useful skills and relational work.