About Delores
Delores Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with 47 years of experience helping people navigate stress and anxiety. She uses clear, direct conversations to help clients sort through what matters most. People often come to her for help with relationships, grief, and changes at work.
Her practice blends practical tools and curiosity about patterns that shape choices. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and on mindfulness to help people notice what is happening in the moment.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered methods guide gentle goal-setting and values-based steps. Delores supports people struggling with depression, addictions, self-esteem, anger, and career strain. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, communication problems, control issues, and concerns tied to divorce or separation.
Additional focus areas include compassion fatigue, ADHD, and challenges tied to guilt, shame, or forgiveness. Sessions often include problem solving, behavior change work, and practical strategies for daily life. Delores helps clients break issues into manageable steps and practices new skills between sessions.
Her style is nonjudgmental and respectful, and she moves at a pace set by the person seeking help. Based in Virginia, she combines decades of experience with a straightforward approach. People who want to explore change, make different choices, or reduce anxiety will find a steady, experienced practitioner ready to work alongside them.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clear about their values and take small steps toward them even when hard feelings show up. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve functioning. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and workplace or relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they choose techniques and try them out, adjusting the plan based on what fits the person's life and progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and exercises that use verbal and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can be a shorter check-in option or a way to practice skills between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 47 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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