About Dorothy
Dorothy Pedro is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years in direct practice. She helps people manage anxiety, grief, stress, parenting challenges, addictive behaviors, and relationship strain. Her manner is straightforward and practical, focused on helping clients find next steps during hard moments.
She draws on long experience in hospitals where she supported people facing trauma, serious illness, and loss. That work honed her ability to help someone process shock and make decisions for themselves and their family.
Background and approach
In calmer times she uses motivational interviewing to set goals and build plans that fit a busy or chaotic life. Dorothy often uses systems-based thinking when family dynamics matter. She looks for strengths across the family and tries less direct routes to change when direct attempts stall.
Small shifts in one area may create positive ripple effects elsewhere. Her style blends listening with practical tasks. She teaches parenting skills, runs groups, and does one-on-one sessions that focus on clear, achievable steps.
She also coordinates with schools and community services when extra help is needed. Clients can expect a collaborative approach. Dorothy aims to be a team member who listens and helps people move forward.
If her approach is not a good fit, she will suggest other resources to find the right match.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, committed actions even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. It helps people move toward what matters despite uncomfortable emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, behaviors, and the patterns that keep problems going, using practical exercises to change unhelpful habits and ease symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy attends to how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build safer ways of relating and connecting.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy work. Dorothy will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts methods over time and checks in to see what helps most so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video shows facial cues and allows longer sessions, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing homework or short support between meetings. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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