About Lenita
Lenita Marquez is a Washington-based licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She focuses on clear, practical support for everyday struggles. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel understood and more in control of their day-to-day lives.
With nine years of experience, Lenita blends person-centered care with structured tools to address difficult emotions and behaviors. Sessions often include skills practice, thought work, and checking what works in real life.
Background and approach
She also draws on approaches that address relationships and communication when those areas are part of the concern. Lenita works with a wide range of issues including trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, self-esteem, and ADHD. She helps people dealing with parenting strain, intimacy-related concerns, compassion fatigue, and the aftermath of separation or domestic violence.
Additional focus areas include attachment and adoption and foster care topics. Her sessions aim to help people build coping skills and make small changes that add up. She uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy alongside client-centered conversations.
When relationship dynamics matter she incorporates Gottman-informed ideas to improve how people talk and solve problems. People who choose Lenita can expect straightforward guidance, steady support, and concrete strategies to try between sessions. Her goal is to help clients gain clearer direction and more usable tools for coping with stress, anxiety, and other challenges.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can find their own solutions; it is useful when someone needs support to clarify values, feelings, and goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, combines skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness and can help when strong emotions or relationship stress get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan so it fits the client’s needs and pace rather than assuming one method will suit everyone.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to match therapy to a person’s schedule, comfort level, and daily routine.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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