Dr. Lita Carvalho
Supports families through practical therapy
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lita
Dr. Lita Carvalho helps families and individuals facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, addiction, and many other life stresses. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT 113252 - practicing in California.
She speaks English and brings 20 years of experience to her work with people of different ages and life stages. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills and small steps that fit everyday life. She aims to make the process feel understandable and doable for worried parents and caregivers. Dr.
Carvalho uses a mix of proven methods chosen to match each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns and on attachment-based ideas to improve connection within families. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients build values-based actions when emotions feel overwhelming.
Telehealth options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging so families can choose what fits their schedule. Services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and costs vary with location and therapist availability.
To begin, a family or individual selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules sessions according to therapist availability. The work is practical, paced to the client, and focused on real-life improvements.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit family life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on what matters to you and teaches small actions to move toward those values even when emotions are strong. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns that fuel anxiety or depression. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape behavior and feelings, and it helps improve connection and communication within families.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person or family about goals, needs, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online sessions allow the same therapeutic approaches to be used through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. This flexibility helps busy parents and caregivers fit therapy into their schedules, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity across life changes. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and communication to each format so that progress can continue even when meeting remotely.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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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