Dr. Dora Whiteside
Calm, practical therapy for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dora
Dr. Dora Whiteside is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of clinical work based in Texas. She brings practical therapy skills and a steady presence to sessions.
Her focus includes stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, parenting concerns, and a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues listed on her profile. She offers care in English and provides sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She favors clear, hands-on methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy while also drawing on Client-Centered and mindfulness-based ideas.
Background and approach
That means she listens first, then helps clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try small, doable changes. Sessions tend to be grounded and practical, with concrete tools to try between meetings. Whiteside has worked in multiple settings and with diverse cultural and ethnic groups over her career.
Her experience includes treating mood conditions such as bipolar disorder and major depression as well as anxiety, trauma-related struggles, grief, and challenges related to identity and intimacy. She also addresses areas like sleep, eating concerns, ADHD, and caregiver stress. Her style emphasizes building a collaborative relationship from the start.
She aims to match treatment to each person’s needs and goals, helping people move from surviving to living more fully. Parents who want straightforward strategies for family and parenting concerns may find her practical approach useful. She holds Texas LPC 62636 as her credential.
Online and text-based formats are part of her practice, and therapy is organized through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy is built around respectful listening and following the person’s lead. The therapist offers space to talk, reflects what she hears, and helps clients clarify their own goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small, practical changes to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to help with stress, sleep, and overwhelming emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to each person’s history, needs, and goals and then recommend methods to try. That decision is collaborative, and adjustments are expected as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family routines and to continue care during life transitions. They also allow follow-up conversations and brief check-ins in between longer appointments, which can help people try new skills and stay on track.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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