About Gladys
Gladys Cano, LICSW, helps people navigate stressful and anxious times. She works with adults on concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and parenting stress. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and draw on more than 25 years of practice.
Gladys keeps sessions direct and practical. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Mindfulness practices are offered to build calm and reduce reactivity.
Background and approach
Strengths-based work highlights what is already going well and builds from those capacities. Her approach is warm and respectful. She aims to create clear goals together and to teach skills clients can use between sessions.
Meetings may include skill practice, problem solving, and gradual behavior changes tailored to daily life. Gladys earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Social Work from Boston University in 1994 and holds a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential.
She has spent over two decades working with English- and Spanish-speaking clients and understands cultural challenges many immigrants face while adapting to life in the United States. Her background also includes 21 years of service in the U.S. Army Reserves, where she supported service members and their families through deployments.
That experience informs her calm, practical style and her focus on coping skills and routines.
Practical approaches and flexible online care
Gladys uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and practice different behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and problems that involve avoidance or repeated negative thinking.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach attention and grounding skills. Mindfulness can reduce rumination and help with sleep, stress, and emotional reactivity. She draws on strengths-based methods as well, helping clients identify what already works for them and build on those strengths.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Gladys will work with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send updates, ask brief questions, and practice skills between appointments. These formats provide flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels, while keeping treatment focused on concrete coping skills and real-life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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