About Dora
Dora Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people facing anxiety, stress, and big life changes. She offers steady, practical support in simple language so callers can quickly understand what to expect. Her style is calm and compassionate, aimed at helping people manage day-to-day strain and find clearer footing.
Dora draws on nearly a decade of experience to tailor sessions to each person's needs. She guides clients through coping skills for anxiety and depression and helps improve communication and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses grief, addiction concerns, and challenges related to relationships and family dynamics. Sessions focus on realistic steps people can use between meetings. Dora uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most to the person in front of her.
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and to build practical behavior changes. Mindfulness practices and elements of dialectical behavior therapy show up when managing intense emotions or breaking cycle patterns. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change, especially around substance use or other addictive behaviors.
Dora provides video, phone, chat, and text-based sessions for people in Virginia and beyond. She works in English and has licenses listed for Virginia and South Carolina. Her approach aims to be collaborative and straightforward so people can make steady progress on the goals they set together.
Approaches that translate well online
Dora uses client-centered care to start sessions by listening and reflecting what matters most to the person. This approach helps set goals that feel relevant and realistic for daily life, and it is useful when anxiety or life transitions make decisions harder.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT can help reduce anxiety symptoms and improve mood through step-by-step practice between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used for handling intense emotions and improving emotional regulation when strong reactions get in the way of goals.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match tools to their needs, goals, and preferences rather than applying a single method. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone can be quicker and use less bandwidth, and text or chat can suit short check-ins or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on clear goals and practical steps.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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