About Dolores
Dolores Cancino is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience. She practices in Arizona and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and related concerns. Dolores aims to build a straightforward, respectful relationship so people can feel heard and make steady progress.
Her career began in family services, including work tied to foster care and adoption. She later worked in hospital crisis settings with people who had serious mental health needs.
Background and approach
Much of her work has included supporting active duty military members and veterans, and she has spent many years helping people process trauma. Dolores uses practical, goal-oriented approaches in sessions. She listens closely and tries to be direct and clear about what to expect.
Sessions focus on real-life skills and steps that people can use between meetings to feel better and cope with challenges. She works with a wide range of concerns beyond mood and trauma, including addictions, relationship and family stress, parenting strains, caregiver fatigue, and life transitions. Additional focus areas have included hospice and end-of-life issues, cancer caregiving, blended family dynamics, and postpartum depression.
Dolores offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are scheduled through a subscription system that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are arranged based on therapist scheduling.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing your experience without judgement and supporting your own goals. It helps when someone needs a listening space and guidance that follows their pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches concrete skills to change behaviors and mood. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dolores will talk with you about your needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. She collaborates with clients to try different techniques and adjusts the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions help build rapport and let the therapist and client read facial cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging lets clients check in between meetings or share shorter updates. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English