About Dominic
Dominic Valdes is a licensed clinical social worker in California who combines practical, person-focused therapy with real-world experience. He draws on 17 years in the field to help people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and relationship struggles. Dominic aims to create straightforward, nonjudgmental conversations that feel manageable for someone worried and tired.
He uses client-centered work to listen and clarify what matters most to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and small behavior changes.
Background and approach
He also works with EMDR for trauma and DBT skills for emotion regulation when those fit the situation. Dominic often supports people navigating sexual identity and intimacy concerns, including gender dysphoria, kink and alternative sex culture, polyamory, and issues around infidelity. He also helps with abandonment, attachment wounds, control and commitment issues, and the strain of addiction to drugs or alcohol.
Sessions focus on practical steps that can be tried between meetings. Dominic helps clients build tools for managing anxiety and anger, improving communication, and rebuilding trust after betrayal. He aims to make plans that fit daily life, not just ideas on paper.
People who choose him can expect direct, respectful feedback and a steady focus on goals. Dominic accepts sessions in English and practices across multiple remote formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and helping people identify their own goals. It emphasizes respect and empathy so clients can explore identity, relationship concerns, or feelings of isolation at their own pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. It teaches simple tools to change thinking patterns and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and addictive habits.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used when past traumatic memories keep causing distress. It can reduce the intensity of those memories so daily life becomes easier to handle.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets for face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler for lower bandwidth, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging makes it easy to keep momentum between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English