Delores Smith

Delores Smith is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 47 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and career concerns, and she brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to conversations about change. Sessions aim to help people make decisions that match their goals and daily life. Delores blends insight-oriented work with hands-on strategies. She helps people notice how choices and actions move them closer to or farther from their goals. That perspective is used alongside problem-solving, behavior modification, and motivation techniques to support real changes. Her practice addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, communication and control problems, anger, and challenges connected to divorce or separation. She also supports people facing compassion fatigue, recovery from infidelity, and struggles with guilt, shame, or abandonment. Therapy often includes elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and mindfulness approaches. Sessions are paced to match each person’s readiness, and Delores emphasizes a nonjudgmental, respectful space for honest conversation. People who choose to work with her can expect collaboration about goals and a focus on practical steps. She also brings experience helping people consider work-life balance and career-related decisions while coping with life changes.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people get clearer about their values and take small steps toward them, even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve mood. It is often used for depression, anxiety, and problem-solving at work or home. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices that reduce reactivity and help with emotion regulation and stress management.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate to choose methods that match a person’s goals, comfort level, and daily routine. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as needed.

Session formats are not specified in her biography, so please confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It can also let people use quieter surroundings or avoid being on camera when that helps them focus. Licensed professionals and therapists commonly adapt tools from ACT, CBT, and mindfulness for remote sessions to support practical change.