Soledad Hess
Calm practical support for parents and families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Soledad
Soledad Hess is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 19 years of experience to her practice in California. She currently works as a middle school mental health worker and has also worked at the high school level. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction-related concerns, anger, and low self-esteem.
She also offers parenting and behavior support to families and caregivers. She uses plain talk and a gentle manner. She often adapts sessions to what each person prefers, and she will tailor conversations and plans to fit specific needs.
Background and approach
When clients want hands-on activities, she can include creative tools like art, music, or writing as part of sessions. Her background includes time in hospice care, where she provided grief support, and work with people affected by trauma using trauma-informed practices. That experience informs how she approaches sensitive topics and end-of-life concerns.
She is familiar with attachment and adoption-related issues and with caregiver stress. Sessions may address communication and control issues, relapse and substance concerns, panic and social anxiety, and challenges around sexuality and self-love. She also supports smoking and vaping cessation and works with parents around behavior and caregiving strategies.
Her approach is practical and focused on making small, workable changes. Soledad meets clients where they are and respects each person’s pace. She emphasizes sensitivity and compassion in every interaction.
Parents who want straightforward guidance and flexible tools often find her style accessible and down to earth.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Soledad uses evidence-based techniques that translate well to remote sessions. She draws on trauma-informed practices to create a predictable, respectful way of working; this helps when processing grief, past stress, or difficult life events. She also integrates practical behavioral strategies that focus on small, doable steps for managing anxiety, anger, and addiction-related patterns.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each family or individual about goals and preferences and adjust methods over time. If a client prefers creative options, art, music, or writing exercises can be included in remote work to match their style.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents and caregivers. Video calls let people hold face-to-face conversations from home, while phone sessions provide a simpler option when video isn't convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or use brief, focused exchanges when that fits better with a schedule. These formats help make consistent care easier to arrange.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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