About Lourdes
Lourdes Mayes is a bilingual therapist who speaks English and Spanish and brings 21 years of mental health experience to her work. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in California and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and addiction. She also supports those coping with relationship strain, intimacy issues, and parenting concerns.
She uses straightforward, practical techniques in sessions. Lourdes helps clients notice patterns that keep them stuck and then builds small steps toward change.
Background and approach
Conversations often include improving communication, problem-solving, and coping strategies for intense emotions like anger or shame. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space where they decide what to work on. Lourdes pays attention to how attachment and past relationships affect current struggles.
She blends those insights with skills from cognitive and behavioral approaches to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Sessions also focus on values and action. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help people name what matters and take steps that match those values.
Dialectical skills are used when emotions feel overwhelming and steadier regulation is needed. Because she works in both English and Spanish, Lourdes can support a wider range of backgrounds. Her approach aims to be collaborative and practical, helping people build tools they can use between sessions.
She invites people who want clear, achievable steps for change to reach out.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward them, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It helps with anxiety, depression, grief, and motivation by turning attention to what matters most and practicing committed action. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape present patterns and helps people build healthier ways of connecting and responding in close relationships. This can be useful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and fears of abandonment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by teaching concrete skills to reduce anxiety and lift mood. It often includes practical exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will listen to your goals, try out methods, and adjust based on what helps most. That way decisions are based on your needs and preferences rather than a fixed plan.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video offers a face-to-face feel and is useful for teaching skills and work that benefits from discussion. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging let you touch base between sessions or work through quick issues in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and travel while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish