Dolores Cancino
Calm, direct support for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dolores
Dolores Cancino is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of practice. She brings long experience in social work and trauma-informed care. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people dealing with family and parenting challenges and related stressors.
Her background includes work in family services, foster care, and adoption. She also spent years in inpatient crisis settings and supporting active duty military and veterans. That mix of roles shaped a straightforward, problem-focused style that aims to make therapy useful from the start.
Background and approach
Sessions with Dolores are direct and compassionate. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals. Her style is honest but nonjudgmental, and she often uses simple tools you can try between meetings.
Dolores uses a range of approaches drawn from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral methods to mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. She tailors these methods to daily life - for example, spotting thought patterns that keep stress high or identifying small changes that improve routine family interactions.
Therapy is offered in formats that fit busy lives: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are provided by a licensed clinician practicing in Arizona and conducted in English. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a session that fits your timing.
Her goal is to walk alongside you through difficult moments and help you find clearer ways to cope. She aims to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to your everyday family concerns.
Approaches that match your life and schedule
Dolores uses client-centered techniques that focus on understanding each person's experience and priorities, helping clients feel heard while shaping goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another common tool she uses to help people notice thought patterns that increase stress and practice alternative, more helpful thinking. Mindfulness Therapy is used to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and support calmer responses to family or parenting pressures.Finding the right combination of methods is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to decide which approach or mix of approaches fits their needs, goals, and preferences. This is a shared process and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online formats make it easier to maintain continuity when life is busy. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging offer options when screen time or scheduling is a challenge. These choices add flexibility and let people use the format that best supports steady progress with the therapist.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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