About Delores
Delores Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with 47 years of practice in Virginia. She uses practical, person-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping each person move at a comfortable pace.
Delores draws from several approaches including acceptance and commitment, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, mindfulness, and client-centered therapy. She helps people notice how their choices affect goals and then builds skills to change unhelpful patterns.
How Delores works
Sessions emphasize real-world problem solving and clearer decision making. Many sessions focus on relationships and intimacy-related concerns, communication problems, and recovering from separation or infidelity. She also addresses addiction, compassion fatigue, career strain, and life transitions.
Additional focus areas include forgiveness, guilt and shame, control issues, and women's issues. Delores blends behavior strategies with reflective talk so clients both learn new skills and understand what drives them. She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Sessions are arranged through an online matching and scheduling process. Her style is nonjudgmental and steady. Delores encourages people to take practical steps that match their values and pace.
She helps people find strategies that fit their daily life, from coping skills to communication techniques.
Delores lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Delores works with
The areas below are the ones Delores selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 47 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions that match those values. It focuses on building willingness to feel difficult emotions while moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches step-by-step strategies for changing unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday struggles. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These practices often support stress, anger, and compassion fatigue.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Delores works with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. She blends approaches as needed and checks in regularly to make sure the plan feels useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and rhythms. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat can fit brief check-ins or homework between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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