About Dorothy
Dorothy Frazier is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with self-esteem. Dorothy also supports those facing addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, anger, career changes, and issues related to trauma and bipolar conditions.
She uses straightforward methods to help clients identify patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions emphasize practical steps that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
Dorothy respects each person’s perspective and looks for strengths to build on during work together. Clients can expect compassionate listening paired with clear tools. Conversations often include strategies to reduce anxious thinking and small behavioral changes to improve day-to-day life.
She aims for progress people can notice sooner rather than later. Over her career Dorothy has guided people through shifts in work, relationships, and personal goals. She encourages realistic goals and steady effort.
Her approach is steady and goal-focused while remaining flexible to each person’s needs. If someone is thinking about starting therapy, Dorothy helps them set simple, achievable steps. She supports practical problem solving and wants clients to leave sessions with ideas they can try right away.
Practical approaches for online mental health care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches ways to notice unhelpful thinking and to try different behaviors. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and some addiction-related patterns.Dorothy emphasizes concrete techniques from CBT that people can practice between sessions. That might include short experiments, thought records, or step-by-step behavior changes to test what works. The goal is to find small shifts that add up to noticeable improvements in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Dorothy works with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies based on how things are progressing.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video is useful for longer, interactive sessions, while phone calls can fit into a quick break. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work from locations that suit each person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English