About Douglass
Dr. Douglass Lobo is a licensed mental health counselor with 30 years of experience in Florida. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
He also supports those coping with trauma, addiction, parenting struggles, ADHD challenges, and shifts in life direction. Dr. Lobo uses straightforward, conversational sessions where clients talk about what matters most to them.
He draws on client-centered methods to listen closely and build goals together.
How Douglass works
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful patterns and mindfulness exercises to help calm racing thoughts. His work includes addressing family problems, communication troubles, and issues around adoption, foster care, or fatherhood. He also helps people dealing with abandonment, codependency, or isolation and supports clients exploring sexuality, kink, and alternative sex culture concerns.
Over three decades he has worked across public and personal settings and consults with school systems. He brings practical experience to sessions and focuses on tangible steps people can try between meetings. That often means breaking problems into smaller pieces and tracking progress.
Sessions are aimed at clear goals such as improving sleep, managing anger, boosting self-esteem, or coping with career transitions. The style is direct and collaborative, with an emphasis on strategies clients can use in daily life.
Douglass lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Douglass works with
The areas below are the ones Douglass selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's priorities. The therapist follows the client's lead, helps clarify goals, and offers feedback so people feel heard and can decide what to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy aims to identify and shift patterns in close relationships. It helps people notice emotional reactions, name them, and try different ways of connecting or communicating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will test approaches and adjust the plan as progress is made, treating the choice of methods as a team decision.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is suited to deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or when typing helps someone organize their thoughts. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try formats that match the work at hand.
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