Dolores Cancino, LCSW

Dolores Cancino is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of practice. She draws on long experience in hospital crisis work, foster care and adoption services, and with active duty military and veterans. Dolores aims to build a straightforward, caring relationship so people feel heard and understood.

Her background includes work in family services and inpatient settings supporting people with serious mental illness. She has spent a large portion of her career helping those affected by trauma, depression, anxiety, caregiving stress, and LGBTQ+ concerns. Early work with abuse, neglect, foster care, and adoption shaped her practical approach to complex situations.

Dolores uses several therapy styles to fit each person’s needs. She focuses on listening first and then offering tools to manage thoughts, emotions, and reactions. Sessions often include skill-building for sleep, stress, grief, anger, and life transitions, and attention to maintaining day-to-day functioning.

People can expect direct communication and a nonjudgmental presence. She prefers video so therapists and clients can connect face to face, but phone and text options are also mentioned as communication methods. She checks messages during the day and responds to schedule and communication questions.

Dolores helps people work through challenges related to chronic stress, trauma and abuse, substance concerns, relationship tensions, caregiving pressures, and coping with illness or life changes. Her aim is to walk alongside clients and help them discover practical ways to move forward.

How Dolores blends proven approaches for online work

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening-first stance. The therapist focuses on understanding a person’s experience and follows the client’s pace to set goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and offers clear, practical tools to break unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms like anxiety and depression.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Dolores will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That decision can change over time as needs shift and progress is made.

Session formats were not fully specified in the original profile, so please confirm current options before booking. Dolores has noted a preference for video to help build a connection, and she also mentioned phone and text as ways she communicates. Online work can make scheduling easier, allow short check-ins between appointments, reduce travel time, and help therapy fit into a busy day.