Dr. Gloria Aquino Sosa, LPC

Dr. Gloria Aquino Sosa is a licensed professional counselor with over 25 years of experience. She practices from a person-centered stance and combines narrative, mindfulness, existential, and Jungian ideas in her work. She speaks English and Spanish and offers care from Michigan. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem. Career concerns, parenting strain, attention differences, and life transitions are also common topics she addresses. Her style is direct, sincere, and interactive. Sessions focus on respectful conversation that surfaces the patterns shaping daily life. She aims to help people notice what matters to them and build practical steps toward clearer choices. Her background includes roles as a psychotherapist, academic, personal counselor, and life strategist. She has worked extensively with bilingual Spanish speakers and people of color navigating immigration and cultural issues, systems of oppression, and intercultural stressors. In collaboration with each person she sees, she forms a plan based on strengths and personal stories. That plan may include mindfulness practices, narrative work to reframe difficult experiences, and exploration of values and meaning. She encourages small, achievable changes that fit each person’s life.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online

Dr. Sosa frequently uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people feel heard and learn concrete ways to manage stress. Client-centered work emphasizes listening closely and shaping sessions around each person's goals. Mindfulness practices teach short exercises to calm attention and reduce reactivity in everyday moments.

She also draws on narrative therapy to help people reframe difficult experiences. Narrative work asks you to tell the stories that shape your life and then notices new ways those stories can be told so choices feel clearer and more possible.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and practical needs during early sessions and adapt strategies over time. Clients and therapist decide together what techniques to try and when to change course.

Confirm current session options before you book, as the biography does not list specific online formats. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. If you have questions about which session rhythm or format will work best, raise them when you complete the matching questionnaire and schedule your first meeting.