About Dolores
Dolores "Del" Larkin is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by perfectionism, anxiety, low self-esteem, or big life changes. Del listens with curiosity and helps clients take practical steps forward.
Del draws from several approaches to shape each session around the person in front of her. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot the thoughts that fuel worry and avoidance.
Background and approach
She also brings dialectical behavior ideas when people need skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Attachment-based and emotionally-focused work guide conversations about relationship patterns and trust. That can help people who struggle with codependency, abandonment fears, jealousy, or communication problems.
Del also addresses concerns like grief, trauma, addictions, anger, bipolar management, and career stress. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented. Del helps people set small, doable steps.
She offers coaching-style support when someone wants practical strategies alongside deeper emotional work. Del practices in Illinois and works in English. She accepts international clients and connects with people by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client's needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Del uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change the thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and low self-worth. CBT often includes simple homework and step-by-step practice to reduce panic, worry, and avoidance.She also draws from attachment-based and emotionally-focused approaches to look at how relationship patterns affect feelings of abandonment, jealousy, or isolation. Those methods focus on understanding connection needs and building healthier interaction habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Del will discuss goals and preferences and adjust techniques so the process feels useful and doable. Sessions combine listening, skill teaching, and practical experiments tailored to each person.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers not to use video. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on real-world progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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