About Lenita
Lenita Marquez is a Washington-based licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and grief. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her manner is warm and straightforward so conversations feel accessible and focused.
Lenita draws on about nine years of clinical experience. She listens for each person’s goals and tailors work to those priorities. Sessions mix direct skill practice with space to talk about what matters most to the client.
How Lenita works
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, intimacy-related issues, and parenting challenges. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment, blended family stress, and substance-related problems. Lenita uses a combination of approaches to match the situation and the person.
In sessions she offers practical tools from cognitive and behavioral approaches and attention to emotional regulation and relationships. The Gottman Method informs how she looks at communication and commitment issues. She also weaves client-centered and existential ideas to keep the focus on personal meaning and choice.
People meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Lenita practices in Washington and provides services in English. She does not take international clients.
Lenita lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Lenita works with
The areas below are the ones Lenita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online care
Lenita uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and practice small, useful behavior changes that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical behavior therapy contributes emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for managing intense feelings and impulsive urges. The Gottman Method offers concrete ways to improve communication and address commitment or relationship patterns when those issues come up.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then select or combine methods that make the most sense. Progress is tracked together and methods are adjusted based on what helps the client meet their goals.
Online therapy with Lenita is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing skill work, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to continue work when circumstances change.
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