About Dorothy
Dorothy Pedro helps people facing grief, addiction, anxiety, depression, parenting stress, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports people dealing with eating or sleeping problems, bipolar disorder, ADHD, career strain, and life transitions. Dorothy is an LCSW with 25 years of experience and practices from Arizona.
Her style is straightforward and practical. She listens first, then helps clients set small, achievable goals. Dorothy uses motivational interviewing to move people through chaotic times and to build realistic plans for change.
How Dorothy works
She emphasizes compassion and steadiness when emotions are raw. Dorothy draws on several therapy approaches to fit individual needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people focus on values and committed action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based ideas guide work around closeness, trust, and old relational hurts. Her background includes long work in acute care hospitals, where grief, trauma, suicide, and life-changing illness were common.
That time sharpened her clinical judgment and her ability to help people manage crises while caring for family needs. She also has experience coordinating with schools, courts, and child protective services. Dorothy believes in practical, systems-oriented problem solving.
When direct approaches stall, she looks for alternate routes that create ripple effects across a person’s life. She offers a mix of brief supportive work and more intensive interventions depending on what a client needs.
Dorothy lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Dorothy works with
The areas below are the ones Dorothy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Approach‑led online therapy that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them. It helps people who feel stuck by moving attention from struggling with thoughts to building a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. These skills are useful for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and many everyday challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current trust and closeness; it is helpful for intimacy issues, trauma, and patterns that repeat in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Dorothy will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. The plan can change as progress is made, combining brief supportive work with skills training or deeper relational work when needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues for emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to keep momentum between sessions and to share notes or reflections without being on camera. These options help people access consistent care while fitting sessions into busy lives.
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