About Dorothy
Dorothy Pedro is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of professional experience. She helps people facing grief, addiction, anxiety, depression, parenting stress, trauma, and major life changes. Dorothy draws on decades of work in hospitals and community programs to guide clients toward practical next steps.
She uses direct, calm conversation to help people sort priorities and make plans. Dorothy often applies motivational interviewing to set achievable goals during chaotic times.
Background and approach
She also relies on systems thinking to look for small changes that create bigger improvements in a person’s life. Her background includes long work in acute care hospitals, where she supported people through grief, suicide risk, and life-changing illness. She has coordinated with schools, courts, and child protective services while providing counseling, home visits, and practical resources in community programs.
Dorothy has led parenting education, short-term supportive interventions, and longer problem-solving work depending on what each person needs. She describes the process as a team effort and focuses on steps that improve safety and daily functioning. Sessions blend compassion with clear planning.
Dorothy listens for what matters most, helps set small goals, and tracks progress. If a particular need falls outside her scope, she will provide referrals to other professionals who can help. She practices in Arizona and offers services in English.
Dorothy holds the LCSW credential and brings years of hands-on experience to help people move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions toward them. It helps when worry, avoidance, or painful feelings get in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful cycles. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want tools to manage symptoms.Choosing the best approach is a shared process. Dorothy will work together with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That can mean trying one method for a while, blending approaches, or shifting strategies as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when interaction is important. Phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between appointments or to maintain momentum with brief reflections and homework. These options help people fit therapy into busy or changing lives while still using evidence-informed approaches.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California, Arizona
- Languages
- English