Dorothy Pedro, LCSW
California · 25 years in practice
Dorothy Pedro is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 26417 · expires January 2028
- LCSW, Arizona
- 1315 · expires July 2026
- NPI
- 1932574845 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Dorothy
Dorothy Pedro is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She helps people facing grief, trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, parenting stress, relationship and family challenges. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at helping families and individuals find ways to move forward when life feels overwhelming.
She spent much of her career in acute care hospitals supporting people through life-changing illness, suicide, and sudden loss. That work sharpened her ability to help clients sort priorities, make decisions for their families, and manage immediate crises.
Background and approach
She also uses motivational interviewing to help people set goals and take small steps toward them. Dorothy has coordinated with schools, courts, and child protective services and has experience providing school-based support, home visits, and resource planning. She has delivered couples and family counseling, parenting skills education, and group work, often drawing on systems theory to identify indirect routes to change.
Her style centers on listening closely and joining the family or individual as a team member. She focuses on strengths and practical problem solving rather than labels. Sometimes brief supportive sessions are all that’s needed, and other times more focused work is appropriate.
Dorothy integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior strategies. She aims to guide families and individuals toward realistic, do-able steps and will refer to another professional when a different fit is needed.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Dorothy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dorothy names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take committed action toward what matters, even when thoughts and feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds influence current relationships and helps people build safer, more trusting connections with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns for issues like anxiety, depression, and insomnia.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Dorothy will work with clients to choose methods that match their concerns, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques as sessions progress and invites feedback so the plan stays useful and grounded in real life.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video sessions are good for deeper conversational work, phone calls can fit into a busy day, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching. These formats help people maintain continuity of care across schedules and locations while focusing on practical progress.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Dorothy help with?
She works with grief, trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, parenting stress, relationship and family problems, and related issues such as sleep, eating, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She listens closely and joins people as a team member, focusing on strengths and practical steps. Sessions can be brief and supportive or more intensive depending on the situation.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 25 years of clinical practice experience, including many years working in acute care hospitals with grief, trauma, and life-changing illness.
What credentials and location are listed?
Dorothy holds LCSW credentials and is licensed in California and Arizona. Her practice is based in Arizona.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online work.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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