About Soledad
Soledad Hess is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 19 years of experience to her practice in California. She currently works as a middle school mental health worker and has also provided services at the high school level. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, anger, or low self-esteem.
Parents and caregivers can find practical support for parenting challenges and behavior concerns. Her background includes work in hospice where she provided grief counseling, and experience with trauma-affected individuals using trauma-informed practices.
Background and approach
She has helped people coping with life changes, caregiver strain, and issues related to adoption and foster care. She also addresses social anxiety, panic attacks, and substance use concerns such as smoking, vaping, or drug and alcohol addiction. Soledad offers a flexible, person-centered style.
She adapts conversations and plans to meet each person’s needs. When clients prefer, she brings creative options like art, music, and writing into sessions to help expression and insight. Her approach emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer communication. She helps people work through control issues, forgiveness, relationship communication problems, and feelings of isolation. She supports parents with the strain of caregiving and provides strategies to build self-love and confidence.
Taking the first step can feel hard. Soledad aims to make beginning therapy straightforward and understandable. She works with each person to build small, achievable steps toward feeling more steady and capable.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Soledad uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill-building and practical change. One common approach emphasizes coping skills and symptom management to reduce anxiety and panic attacks by teaching breathing, grounding, and behavioral strategies. Another approach centers on trauma-informed methods that pay attention to safety and pacing while helping people process difficult experiences and manage triggers.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is tracked and needs change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit into busy days and let people share thoughts between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities and offer consistent access to a licensed professional without travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English