About Dolores
Dolores Cancino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, depression, trauma, and life changes. She aims to build a straightforward, honest working relationship where clients feel heard and understood.
Her career began in family services, including work around abuse, neglect, foster care, and adoption. She later worked in crisis social work in inpatient hospital settings and spent many years supporting active duty military members and veterans.
Background and approach
These roles shaped a steady approach to severe and complex difficulties. In sessions she is direct but caring. She helps people talk through painful experiences and learn new ways to cope.
She uses clear, practical strategies and tailors them to each person's situation instead of offering one-size-fits-all fixes. Therapeutic methods she uses include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy, along with Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques. These approaches guide short-term problem solving and deeper work on long-standing patterns.
Dolores offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their day. She works from Arizona and provides services in English. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step helps connect people to a good fit for their needs.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. The therapist follows the client's lead, helping people feel understood and clarifying goals for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple practices to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity to stress and difficult memories.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Dolores will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean starting with short-term, solution-focused steps and shifting to deeper trauma-focused work if needed. The plan is adjusted as progress and needs become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are options for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These choices make it simpler to schedule care around work, family, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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