Heather Rink-Rosas , LMFT

Heather Rink-Rosas is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the effects of trauma and addiction. She also supports people facing relationship struggles, LGBT concerns, bipolar disorder, and challenges around separation and divorce.

Her approach is practical and person-focused. She listens first and then works with each person to set clear goals. Sessions look at thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and how those patterns affect daily life.

Heather draws primarily on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different actions. She also uses skills from acceptance and commitment therapy and emotion-focused work when those methods fit a person’s needs. The plan is tailored to what matters most to the client, not one fixed method.

She has worked with issues such as attachment concerns, adoption and foster care questions, body image, codependency, and communication problems. Heather also addresses complex cases where multiple struggles occur at once, including dissociation, anger, and mood conditions.

Heather offers sessions in English and Spanish. She encourages people who are unsure to take a small step toward care and complete the initial matching process to see if her style feels like a good fit.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Heather commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday challenges, and it adapts well to talk-based video or phone sessions.

She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people notice inner experiences and choose actions that match their values. ACT can help with stress, persistent worry, and decisions about meaningful life changes. Emotion-focused therapy is used to clarify feelings and improve emotional connection in relationships, and it suits discussions about grief, attachment, and communication problems.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Heather will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Therapy can change over time as priorities shift and progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and ongoing text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone sessions work well when internet or bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins during the day, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.