Richelle Rojas-Basuil , LCSW

Richelle Rojas-Basuil is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She has three years of experience providing individual and group therapy and draws on earlier work in school settings with adolescents. Richelle presents herself as warm and nonjudgmental and centers trauma awareness in her work.

She helps people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and trauma-related concerns. She also supports those facing relationship strains, low self-esteem, body image worries, and life transitions. Women’s issues are one of the areas she focuses on.

Richelle uses clear, practical conversation to help clients identify goals and take small steps toward them. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to what each person needs. She listens for patterns such as attachment or abandonment concerns and helps people name how those patterns affect daily life.

Her approach draws from client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s perspective and from cognitive behavioral ideas that look at how thoughts and behaviors link to mood. Motivational interviewing and narrative therapy also shape how she helps people shift stories about themselves and find motivation to change.

Richelle’s background in schools and crisis work informs a calm, steady style in session. New clients can expect straightforward conversation about goals, coping strategies they can try between sessions, and gentle reflection on what has felt most helpful so far.

Approaches and online options that meet you where you are

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own perspective and priorities. In practice this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps clarify goals and values. This approach is useful for people wanting a supportive, empathetic space to sort feelings and decisions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other. It includes practical exercises and experiments to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Motivational interviewing supports change by drawing out a person’s own reasons for wanting different outcomes and strengthening motivation for action.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Richelle will work collaboratively to mix methods that fit a client’s needs, goals, and preferences. She will check in about what is helping and adjust strategies over time so the work stays useful and manageable.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other demands while keeping therapy consistent and flexible.