Dolores Cancino, LCSW
Compassionate, experienced social worker for parents and caregivers
Book with Dolores- Years in practice
- 26
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Dolores
Dolores Cancino is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of practice. She draws on long experience in hospital, family services, and military settings to help people when life feels overwhelming. Dolores aims to build a straightforward, honest working relationship where people feel heard and respected.
She began in family services, handling abuse, neglect, foster care, and adoption matters. Later she worked in inpatient hospital crisis care supporting people with serious mental illness.
Background and approach
Much of her career has involved active duty service members and veterans, and trauma has been a central focus. Dolores uses practical approaches to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, and caregiving strain. She also helps people facing relationship and communication problems, addictions, sleep problems, and the difficult shifts that come with major life changes.
Her practice includes work with LGBTQ concerns, postpartum depression, and end-of-life caregiving stress. Her style is caring and direct. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on skills you can try between meetings.
Dolores often combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused work to help people change patterns that cause pain. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions are scheduled through the platform after completing a short matching questionnaire and arranging a time that fits both the client and therapist.
What Dolores works with
Everything Dolores lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Dolores helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Approaches Dolores lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Dolores blends therapy approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and understanding the person where they are. Dolores uses this approach to create a respectful space and to follow the client's priorities, which helps when deciding what to work on first.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Dolores may use CBT techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or ease depressive symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dolores will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for a face-to-face feel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, chat and messaging work well for brief updates or when a written record helps track progress. These options offer flexibility to fit sessions into busy parenting and caregiving schedules.
Questions people ask about Dolores
What issues does this therapist commonly help with?
Dolores supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, parenting concerns, caregiving strain, relationship and communication problems, sleep issues, and addictions.
What is the therapeutic style and approach?
Her style is caring and direct. Sessions focus on collaboration and practical steps, mixing client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques.
How much experience does she have?
She has 26 years of experience working in family services, inpatient crisis settings, and with active duty military and veteran populations.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, with licenses in Arizona and Louisiana, and she practices from Arizona.
What languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and billing handled?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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