Osa Holmes, LCSW

Osa Holmes is a compassionate Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience supporting children, teens, and adults across mental health, substance use, educational settings, and private practice. She centers her work on practical, meaningful interventions that offer clear value to the person seeking help, and she emphasizes careful, skilled attention in a therapeutic setting to reduce wounds and resolve conflicts.

Her background includes extensive teaching and assessment roles. She has presented classes for parents and early childhood through K-12 audiences, served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maine - Farmington and at Indian River State College, and worked as a behavioral health assessor for the Department of Human Services and the Department of Juvenile Justice. Holmes has also served as an expert witness and supervised student teachers and clinical social workers during their training toward independent licensure.

Clinically, she often supports children and adults addressing behavioral concerns, trauma histories, and addiction. Her practice includes work with children with special needs and their families, and she provides individual, family, and group therapy to address panic and anxiety, depression and other mood disturbances, and transitions such as separation from family or change in living placement. The primary aim of her work is to help people move from the immediate challenge they present toward greater ease and comfort in relationships and daily life.

Holmes draws on a range of therapeutic approaches and decades of practice to create an environment that facilitates healing and resolution for the people she serves.