Dr. Gloria Aquino Sosa, LPC

Dr. Gloria Aquino Sosa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist, academic and personal counselor, and life strategist. Her LPC credential indicates formal licensure to provide professional counseling services in the state of Michigan.

Alongside her clinical work, she is a musician who has played in working rock bands for the last 16 years, an interest that informs a creative and engaged approach to therapy. Over the course of her career she has supported people facing career disillusionment, depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, social awkwardness, and persistent feelings of emptiness.

She has also worked with individuals who survived physical trauma and emotional abuse, as well as those managing severe and persistent mental illness. Much of her practice has centered on serving BIPOC - Black, Indigenous, and People of Color - and bilingual Spanish-speaking clients, including people navigating immigration concerns whether documented or undocumented, complex systems of oppression, and intercultural tensions. She has additionally supported adults working through early and mid-life transitions and the everyday problems that arise across the lifespan.

Her therapeutic manner is sincere, person-centered, authentic, and interactive, grounded in mutual respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Her clinical work blends relational cultural perspectives with strengths-based, narrative, humanistic, and psychodynamic approaches. Together with each person she creates an individualized treatment plan focused on specific goals for growth and self-awareness.

Taking a first step toward greater fulfillment requires courage, and Dr. Aquino Sosa approaches that step as a collaborative process. She is prepared to work with people who are ready to address the areas of their lives they most want to change and to help them build more inner strength and clarity.