Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services (SWMHS)
Women’s Mental Health Center: Counseling/Therapy and Supervision in South Carolina
SWMHS is committed to providing comprehensive mental health care to address a variety of needs throughout a woman’s lifespan. Our services meet these needs and foster good mental health. We are an inclusive, affirming, culturally competent, multicultural mental health provider for all women: cisgender, transgender, intersex, non-binary, and woman/feminine identified. We welcome and serve all ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious communities. We help clients heal from anxiety, depression, dysphoria, trauma/stressors, and more, teaching clients constructive coping skills and healthy thinking to promote their healing and improve their well-being. Our specializations are integrative mental health (IMH), multicultural counseling, and women’s mental health. Our specialty areas and issues align with communities we serve. We are qualified and culturally sensitive to work with the veteran community, the Latino/Hispanic/LatinX community, and the LGBTQIA2S+ community. We are bilingual (English/Spanish), military veteran, and LGBTQIA2S+ with lived experience. Individual and group sessions are available. We offer in-office and telehealth appointments. We are also a teaching practice that provides supervision for graduate interns, and clinical supervision for newly licensed associates.
The X-studio: A Mental Health cooperative
Reduced-cost mental health services are available!
Through our nonprofit, The X-Studio: A Mental Health Cooperative, our qualified Mental Health Interns provide reduced-cost mental health services such as counseling and therapy, groups, and more to clients who are struggling with many issues and challenges, including trauma/stressors, disabilities, depression, anxiety, addiction/substance abuse, rehabilitation, grief, and more. They serve individuals, couples, families, and children who are unable to afford mental health services due to financial challenges, income, lack of insurance, or because they are underinsured. Contact us below with the subject line “reduced-cost mental health.”
No-cost mental health services are available!
Through our community service project, The X-Community Service Project, our Mental Health Interns provide no-cost mental health services to the unhoused women who are current or past guests of Keys to Change - The Light House - Women’s Shelter in Summerville, SC. We have partnered with Keys to Change - The Light House - Women’s Shelter, formerly Dorchester County Community Outreach- DCCO - Centers for the Unhoused, to support this women’s shelter that is a haven for women in need.
women veteran’s mental health program
Counseling/therapy for women veterans
Women Veterans are the fastest-growing Veteran population and have unique mental health needs. We, SWMHS, are a SonderMind Mental Health Care Provider. SonderMind is a trusted Community Care partner with the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) Community Care Network (CCN) to help Veterans get the care they need when needed. Veteran mental health support, founded and led by a Veteran. Your home for mental health support, specialized for the Veteran community. Veterans can get a VA referral for counseling/therapy to schedule an appointment with us https://www.sondermind.com/therapy-for-veterans/
Veterans who do not want to receive services via the SonderMind platform or the Veterans Administration (VA) system can receive services directly from us, SWMHS, as a private-pay client with a discount rate. Register and schedule directly with us on our Client Portal and choose the option “veteran”. Or text/call us at (843) 695-9974.
In-office and telehealth counseling/therapy for women veterans in South Carolina (SC).
Xiomara A. Sosa, BS, MS
Clinical Mental Health Counselor
National Certified Counselor
Licensed Professional Counselor
Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor/Candidate
Founder/Owner/CEO/Clinical Director
Xiomara A. Sosa is a mental health clinician who focuses on treating the whole person, not just the symptoms. She combines conventional and non-conventional therapies to treat mental health issues and aims to address the biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to mental health. This approach includes mental health, physical health, emotional well-being, interpersonal relationships, and spiritual needs. She helps clients identify patterns in their lives that may contribute to their struggles and works on developing strategies for making healthier choices.
Clinical Focus (DSM-5)
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Anxiety
If you are feeling consumed by fears of things that might seem irrational to others, or if is hard to relate these concerns to others:
I help you learn how to stop anxiety from impeding your ability to enjoy life, interact at school, work or hang out with friends, and deal with problems it might cause at home.
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Depression
If you are dealing with severe thoughts that can affect how you feel, think and handle daily activities such as sleeping, eating, or working:
I create a space for you to safely navigate these moods and work through whether or not they may be caused by a certain biological, hormonal, or social factor.
Major Depressive Disorder, Single and Recurrent Episodes (MDD)
Major Depressive Disorder with Seasonal Pattern (SAD/Seasonal Affective Disorder)
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Dysphoria
If you are feeling a sense of unease because of a mismatch between your biological sex and your gender identity, and if this sense of unease or dissatisfaction is so intense that it leads to depression and anxiety that cause a harmful impact on your daily life:
I use evidence-based tools to help provide you with lasting relief that include acceptance, affirmation and/or confirmation of your identity.
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Trauma and Stressors
If you are experiencing intrusive memories, avoidance, negative changes in thinking and mood, changes in physical and emotional reaction, flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety, uncontrollable thoughts about a terrifying event, by either experiencing it or witnessing it, and this is causing significant problems in social or work situations, in relationships, or if they are interfering with your ability to go about your normal daily tasks:
I provide you with effective treatment to help reduce your symptoms and improve your function.
specialty areas and issues
Acculturation
Balancing Work and Family/Multiple Roles
Bereavement/Grief/Loss
Burnout
Caregiver Issues or Stress/Care-giving of Aging Parents/Family Caregiving
Codependency
Compassion Fatigue
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Coping Mechanisms
Crisis
Cultural and Systemic Oppression
Cultural/Diversity/Multicultural Concerns
Disaster Mental Health
Discrimination
Domestic Abuse or Violence/Intimate Partner Abuse or Violence
Emotional Abuse
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Support
Gender and Sexual Identity Exploration
Generational Concerns
HIV/AIDS Issues
Historical/Inter-generational Trauma
Identity Issues
Job Stress
Latinx Concerns (Hispanic/Latino/Latina)
LGBTQIA2s+ Concerns
Life Transitions
Menopause and Perimenopause
Midlife Crisis
Military Sexual Trauma (MST)
Multicultural Concerns
Oppression
Personal Development/Growth
Postpartum Anxiety
Postpartum Depression (PPD)
Postpartum PTSD
Racial Concerns/Racial and Cultural Identity/Racial Stress and Trauma
Low Self-Esteem/Lack of Assertiveness
Sexism
Sexual Assault/Abuse and Harassment
Sexual Identity
Sexual Orientation
Stress
Transgender and Nonbinary Issues
Veteran Issues/Transition To Civilian Life
Wellness/Healthy Lifestyle
Work-Related Concerns
Mental Health/Counseling and Therapy Methods
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Counseling and Therapy
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Clinical Focus (DSM-5)
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Modality Treatment Approaches
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Specialty Areas and Issues
Individual and small group supervision for licensure to Licensed Professional Counselor-Associates (LPC-A) in SC.
clinical supervision
For Licensed Professional Counselor Associates (LPC-A)
Our core values: Affirmation, Anti-racism, Cultural humility, Empowerment
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
(All races, ethnicities, cultures, and religions are welcome)
American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN)
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders/Native Hawaiians (AAPI)
Black or African American, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)
Hispanic/Latino/Latinx
LGBTQIA2S+
Middle Eastern or North African
Women of Color (WOC)
Women Veterans
Schedule a free 15 minute consultation.
See if we are a good fit and get your questions answered.
