Lenita Marquez
Compassionate support for parenting and life stressors
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lenita
Lenita Marquez is a Washington-based licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and parenting challenges. She offers straightforward support for common struggles like depression, grief, self-esteem, and intimacy-related concerns. Her manner is empathetic and practical, aimed at helping a worried parent find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
Lenita draws on nine years of clinical experience to guide people through difficult life changes and trauma.
Background and approach
She uses plain language in sessions and helps clients build concrete skills for day-to-day life. That includes tools for managing anger, navigating relationship and family tensions, and addressing ADHD-related challenges. Her work blends client-centered listening with structured techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
She also uses existential ideas to help people find meaning and employs the Gottman Method for relationship-focused conversations when appropriate. Sessions are tailored to the person’s priorities and pace. Lenita holds the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential - LMHC - and practices under WA LMHC LH 61015543 in Washington.
She offers therapy in English and does not accept international clients. Her practice includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging formats. She emphasizes collaboration and clear steps.
New clients complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to availability. Lenita aims to help people build skills, reduce distress, and make practical changes that matter in everyday family life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s pace and priorities, helping them feel heard and supported while they set goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It works well for anxiety, depression, stress, and some parenting challenges through structured tools and exercises that can be assigned between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and coping strategies for intense feelings. Online DBT can include coaching around communication, distress tolerance, and building routines that reduce reactivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences, then recommend and adapt methods collaboratively rather than imposing one fixed model.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy family lives. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, phone sessions remove travel needs, and live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins and skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to keep momentum while juggling parenting and daily responsibilities.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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