About Romia
Romia "Mia" Evans Baggs is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience. She practices from Texas and brings a direct, caring style to sessions. Mia focuses on practical help for everyday struggles and complex life events.
She works with people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, grief, addiction, and identity-related issues. Her background includes supporting people through career changes, caregiver stress, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
Mia describes her approach as warm and interactive. Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then helps people set clear goals. Conversations are tailored to the person's pace and priorities rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
She uses several evidence-based methods to guide work in therapy. That includes cognitive-behavioral techniques to change patterns that keep problems active, emotion-focused work to improve connections and understanding, and acceptance-based strategies to build tolerance for difficult feelings. She also pulls in skills from dialectical behavior therapy when managing strong emotions and impulses.
People who want practical tools and steady support may find her style helpful. Mia aims to make steps feel manageable and to build skills people can use outside sessions. She invites a calm, respectful conversation as a first step toward change.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while taking action toward what matters. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where avoidance keeps problems active. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, which can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That might mean trying one approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online formats make regular care easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and real-time skills practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, skill reminders, and flexible communication between calls. These options help people maintain momentum and work on goals from wherever they are located.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Oregon, Texas
- Languages
- English
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