About Dolores
Dolores Ituarte Valenzuela is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused so parents and busy adults can fit therapy into their lives.
Dolores aims to create a calm, respectful setting where people can talk honestly about what they are going through. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients notice painful thoughts without letting them dictate actions.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping skills. Client-centered listening guides the conversation so each person feels heard and understood. Dolores has ten years of professional experience working in Texas settings.
That experience includes helping people who struggle with attachment and abandonment worries, body image and self-worth issues, caregiving stress, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce. She also supports individuals dealing with chronic illness, chronic pain, and codependency concerns. Sessions move at the client’s pace.
Dolores uses practical exercises, mindfulness practice, and focused talk to build emotional awareness and calmer responses. She works with people who want steady, realistic steps to feel more in control of their reactions and relationships. Many clients begin by naming one small goal for therapy.
Dolores helps break that goal into manageable steps and checks progress each week. This steady, problem-focused way of working helps people notice change without feeling overwhelmed.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Dolores commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that align with their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and building new coping skills, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and anger.She also brings a client-centered stance to sessions, which means listening closely and shaping each conversation around the person's goals. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work; the therapist will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and day-to-day life.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill practice and emotion work. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth or visual focus is an issue. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter, flexible contact fits a busy schedule.
These remote formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, caregiving, or medical appointments while using the approaches above to address stress, anxiety, trauma, and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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