About Lita
Dr. Lita Carvalho helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, and a wide range of relationship and intimacy concerns. She also supports issues like grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and career transitions.
Dr. Carvalho is a California licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, and brings 20 years of clinical experience to her work. Her approach is straightforward and person-focused.
Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals.
How Lita works
She listens first, then uses practical tools from several therapy styles to help with real-life problems. Expect clear steps, skill practice, and calm conversation rather than jargon. Dr.
Carvalho draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She also uses acceptance-based ideas to help people tolerate difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and helps people develop more supported ways of relating.
Therapy often includes skill building from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and communication. Many sessions mix talk therapy with exercises and homework that are short and doable between meetings. The aim is to leave with tools that work in daily life.
She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for people living in California. Initial steps are simple: complete a brief matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Lita lists 18 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Lita works with
The areas below are the ones Lita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Dr. Carvalho often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral experiments. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday challenges. She also draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current ways of relating, which can help with intimacy and communication struggles.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose or blend methods based on their goals, symptoms, and preferences. Together they set small objectives and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when video is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to practice skills in daily life and to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving demands.
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