Dolores Cancino, LCSW

Dolores Cancino is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of practice. She offers steady, practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, caregiving strain, and life transitions. Dolores aims to build a straightforward, respectful relationship so clients can make usable changes in daily life.

She began her career in family services, focusing on foster care, adoption, and abuse and neglect. Later she worked in inpatient crisis settings with people who had serious mental illness. Much of her practice has involved active duty military members and veterans, and she has long focused on trauma-informed care.

Dolores uses client-centered approaches to meet people where they are. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work to help clients learn new habits and cope differently. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with attention to each person’s pace and values.

People can expect honest, direct feedback paired with a nonjudgmental stance. Dolores helps clients sort priorities, manage stress and anger, and address sleep, parenting, or relationship concerns as they affect an individual. She also works with issues related to aging, cancer caregiving, first responder stress, and postpartum depression.

Therapy is available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Dolores works in Arizona and conducts sessions in English. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time that fits their needs.

How Dolores Uses Practical Approaches Online

Dolores often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thinking patterns that worsen anxiety, depression, or stress. CBT focuses on specific thoughts and behaviors and teaches simple tools that can be practiced between sessions.

She also works in a client-centered way, which means listening first and shaping goals around each person's values. That approach helps people feel heard and guides the pace of work. Mindfulness Therapy is used to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity, which can help with sleep troubles, anger, or trauma-related distress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Dolores will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that fit those needs. The plan can change as progress is made, and decisions are made together.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth or movement is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options help therapy fit into work, caregiving, or other daily demands.