Delores Smith, LCSW

Delores Smith, LCSW, brings 47 years of clinical social work experience to sessions focused on relationships and life transitions. She centers her work on understanding how choices and actions shape everyday life. Conversations are practical and aimed at helping people move toward the changes they want.

Delores helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports people facing career concerns, addictions, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. Relationship and intimacy issues, communication problems, and infidelity are among the interpersonal concerns she often addresses.

Her approach blends acceptance and commitment ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral tools. Mindfulness and dialectical techniques appear in sessions when they help clients manage strong emotions. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where insight guides real-life decisions.

Delores describes her role as a guide who never pushes beyond what someone is ready to do. Sessions emphasize clear problem solving, behavior changes, and motivation for sustained progress. People can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through painful topics like abandonment, guilt, or divorce and separation.

With a long career in social work and life coaching, she integrates practical life planning into therapy. That includes help with work-life balance, forgiveness, and coping with disasters and major life upheaval. The goal is steady, achievable change that fits each person’s pace and priorities.

How her approaches translate to online work

Delores uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. ACT focuses on clarity about goals and steady steps forward rather than on eliminating every unwanted thought or feeling.

She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which means conversations start with the person’s experience and priorities. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping someone find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try practical changes that relieve anxiety, depression, or relationship conflict.

Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Delores will work with each person to see which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences and may combine techniques over time. The pace and focus are set jointly so work moves at a comfortable, useful speed.

Please confirm the exact online session options before booking, since the biography does not list formats. Many people find online sessions helpful because they can fit appointments into a workday, avoid travel time, or use shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Online meetings can make it easier to maintain continuity during life changes while still focusing on the same practical skills and decisions used in in-person care.