About Dolores
Dolores Beynor is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 39 years of experience. She helps people who are anxious, depressed, struggling with addictions, or coping with major life changes. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at easing daily stress and improving how people function.
She listens first and starts where the person is. Dolores offers individual and group formats and uses education to explain conditions like depression, anxiety, substance use, grief, and trauma.
Background and approach
She treats concerns such as phobias, anger, and relationship problems by combining support with clear information. Dolores draws on several therapy styles to match each person’s needs. She often uses client-centered work to build trust and motivation-based techniques to help people make changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to find and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Her background includes long-term work with adults and older adults, and experience addressing caregiver stress and geriatric concerns. She has also supported people after trauma, including those who experienced emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.
Treatment plans are created together and focused on the client’s priorities. Sessions emphasize dignity, respect, and compassion while offering concrete tools. Dolores blends supportive conversation with psycho-education so people leave with both understanding and practical steps.
She aims to empower people as they work toward their goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building trust and understanding through active listening and empathy. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and supports small, achievable steps toward recovery.Choosing the right method is part of therapy. Dolores will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches match their goals and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan can shift if something else fits better.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging work for brief check-ins, coping tools between sessions, or ongoing support when a full session isn’t needed. These options increase flexibility and help people keep momentum toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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