About Delores
Delores Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who draws on long experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship difficulties. She uses a straightforward style aimed at helping clients make practical changes. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps clients can try between meetings.
With 47 years in the field, Delores blends talk-based methods with skills training. She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and mindfulness practices.
Background and approach
This mix helps with mood, self-esteem, addictions, and coping with life changes. Delores assists people facing parenting and family stress, career transitions, issues around intimacy and communication, and challenges like abandonment or infidelity. She also addresses anger, compassion fatigue, and concerns tied to personality patterns.
Her work includes helping people sort through guilt, shame, forgiveness, and recovery from separation or disaster-related stress. Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental. She invites clients to notice how choices and actions affect their goals.
Conversations aim to increase clarity so people can choose different responses in daily life. Sessions may include behavior change strategies, problem-solving, and motivation-building alongside reflective discussion. Delores emphasizes pacing the work to match each person’s readiness.
She welcomes people who want practical steps as well as deeper insight into patterns that hold them back.
Approaches that guide online sessions and what they do
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and helps people commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. This approach often includes practical exercises and homework to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and to improve coping skills.
Delores treats the choice of approach as a team decision. She will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, then suggest methods to try. The plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls let most sessions feel like in-person meetings, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options let clients fit therapy around work, family, and other commitments while still working with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 47 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English