About Lita
Dr. Lita Carvalho helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, parenting strain, grief, and a wide range of relationship and life challenges. She is Dr.
Lita Carvalho, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 20 years of clinical experience. Her manner is calm and straightforward, and she aims to make starting therapy easier for worried parents and individuals alike. Her sessions are client-centered.
She works with each person to set clear goals and practical steps.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on day-to-day strategies as well as understanding patterns that keep problems going. She uses tools that patients can practice between meetings. Dr.
Carvalho draws on cognitive behavioral methods to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build action toward those values. Attachment-based ideas help when past relationships shape current struggles.
She has long experience helping people with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, eating and sleeping issues, intimacy problems, abandonment and attachment concerns, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She also supports clients facing career stress, parenting pressures, body image worries, and co-occurring conditions. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Fees vary by location and the subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled based on therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
The practice blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address symptoms and values. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values even when uncomfortable feelings are present.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to test methods, adjust strategies, and pick techniques that match goals and preferences. This makes sessions feel practical and focused rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a screen-free check-in is better. Live chat and messaging allow short updates, homework review, or quick coping skills between longer meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy family schedules, work breaks, or times when a shorter check-in is most useful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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