Gladys Cano
Compassionate support for families and relationships
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gladys
Gladys Cano is a licensed clinical social worker who helps adults, couples, and families through stressful and painful times. She focuses on issues such as stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. She also addresses intimacy, self-esteem, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, career questions, bipolar disorder, and LGBT-related matters.
Gladys speaks English and Spanish and has worked with bilingual clients for many years.
Background and approach
Her approach blends practical tools with calm, steady support. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She incorporates mindfulness to help people stay present and manage strong emotions.
A strength-based perspective helps clients build on what already works for them. Gladys earned her Master of Arts in Clinical Social Work from Boston University in 1994. She holds an LICSW credential - MA LICSW 118563 and RI LICSW isw01538 - and brings 25 years of clinical experience to sessions.
Her background includes long-term work with English and Spanish speakers. She also served 21 years in the U.S. Army Reserves, supporting soldiers and their families through deployments and transitions.
That experience informs her awareness of family life under stress and cultural adjustment. In sessions she aims to be caring, respectful, and encouraging. She helps people set practical goals and develop steps they can use between meetings to move forward.
Approaches and how online therapy fits into care
Gladys draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change the behaviors that follow. CBT is practical and task-focused, often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns. She also uses mindfulness techniques that teach attention and breathing skills to reduce overwhelm and manage strong emotions.She pairs those methods with a strength-based approach that highlights skills people already have. This helps clients set realistic goals and build step-by-step plans. Choosing the right mix is collaborative - the therapist and client work together to find the best fit based on needs, goals, and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options provide flexibility for parents, working adults, and people with busy schedules. Remote sessions make it easier to keep continuity when life is unpredictable and let clients use the format that feels most practical for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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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