Delores Smith, Master of Social Work, VA

Licensed

Online Counseling

(53 reviews)

MSW, LCSW Delores Smith

Provides online counseling through BetterHelp

Mental health conditions are real, common and treatable.

And recovery is possible.

Delores Smith is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional who specializes in affordable online therapy offered through our partner, BetterHelp.

More about me

Licensing: MSW, LCSW Years in Practice: 47 State: Virginia

I am a clinically trained social worker with more than 40 years of experience. My treatment specialties include depression, anxiety, and grief counseling. I assist with the resolution of work-related concerns. I am also a trained life coach, helping people make decisions related to changes they would like to have in their lives while achieving work/life balance. I also provide behavior modification, problem-solving, and motivation therapy. I work with couples of all kinds, knowing that being a couple or family cannot be defined only in the traditional sense. I take a broad view in this area.

The basis for my efforts is insight therapy. I encourage those who work with me to consider how their decisions and actions enhance or impair the attainment of their goals. This type of understanding is critical for making meaningful life changes.

My work is for and about you! We will go as far and as fast as you are able. Although I offer clarity in recognizing the issues that concern you, I will never take you where you do not want to go. Our work will be free of judgment, allowing you to speak and respond openly. I will always respect you and value what you share with me.

You have made the right decision by embarking on a therapeutic relationship. I hope you choose me to help guide you on that journey.

About online counseling

Online counseling allows you to receive care from an online mental health practitioner via phone, video chat, or instant messaging. It is convenient for those who may have trouble getting to or would prefer not to have in-person therapy appointments. Starting at $65 per week, online counseling is generally more affordable than in-person counseling. A study by researchers at University of California, Berkeley found that online counseling can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy while being more convenient, affordable, and accessible.

Issues: Stress Anxiety Relationship issues Grief Self esteem Depression Addictions LGBT Family conflicts Intimacy-related issues Anger management Career difficulties Coping with life changes Compassion fatigue ADHD
Languages Spoken: English

Services offered

Professional, confidential, and judgment-free

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Reviews for Delores Smith

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Very pleased with the caregiving by my therapist, and had appreciable benefits from my time with her. Very Professional, insightful, and caring.

Delores is kind, she listens, and helps me come to good insights on my issues. I would recommend her to anyone going through a grieving process

Delores is attentive and direct with her feedback to me on the issues I am working on. She challenges me and helps me to grow.

She has great insight and gets right to the root of the discussion. She is supportive but keeps you accountable. Very helpful

Delores is an amazing therapist. I trust her opinions and feel comfortable telling her everything. She has helped me through a very difficult time in my life and I am seeing the positive impacts of working with her. She holds me accountable and I am making progress weekly towards my goals. Would recommend her to anyone needing therapy.

I am very pleased with Delores. She listens. Kind but direct. She asks me questions that cause me to look at myself and my family situation differently. I appreciate the insight I've acquired, but also the results! I am taking much better care of myself. I feel much happier and it shows. Even friends can see the change!

Delores has been very helpful with her words of wisdom and always sending me resources that help with my situation.

Delores Smith is very respectful and is a professional at her job she listens and even asks questions that keeps you thinking even after the session. This was the first time of me going to therapy and was nervous but Delores Smith eased my worries and does her job very well.

Delores comes with a wealth of experience and knowledge. Her insight is spot on. She asks probing questions to get to the heart of the matter while respecting the sensitivity of any subject.

I feel supported and understood. Delores presents suggestions that are not judgemental. She guides me to solutions instead of telling me how to resolve my problems. I appreciate the safe environment she creates that allows me to speak freely.

Delores is so helpful in helping recognize the origins of anxiety and dismantling irrational thoughts. She provided me with thought provoking questions and helped me see aspects of my perspective that could change in order to be more effective and positive. I really appreciate how in tune she is with negative thought patterns and how to address them. She is an excellent listener and I felt that all of my issues were heard and addressed.

Delores is very perceptive and knows the right questions to ask. She is very mature and respectful of her clients, a consummate professional.

She is professional knowledgeable and patient

Deloris is great at listening and giving you an honest opinion. Very helpful and great to work with

Delores is exactly the type of therapist I need. She is direct, understanding, and encouraging.

she's a great listener and gives great advice

She is very empathetic and has great suggestions on how to look at a problem from a different perspective. She’s very concise in her approach and gets straight to the root of the problem. I’d definitely recommend her.

Delores has been great and helping guide me to things that I had concerns about, but didn't set aside to think about

Delores is a great therapist! She helped me after the loss of my mother. Her insights were groundbreaking and enlightening

Ms. Delores is a great listener. I would recommend her to my loved ones.

Delores is an amazing listener with so much wisdom and insight. She asks the right questions, and has an uncanny ability to guide you forward with kindness, thoughtfulness and beautiful perspective. I highly, highly recommend!

Delores is a wonderful person that I think that listens and can always provide something insightful to whatever is happening in life. With only a handful of sessions I really do value and respect her for knowledge and skills.

Great listener. Knowledgeable.

Great listener! Delivers genuine thoughts/advice.

Ms. Smith gives me great advice and helps me get through my difficult time in life at this time.

I came back to BetterHelp specifically for Delores’ help & am grateful she’s still available.

Delores was wonderful and a joy to work with.

The main thing that I can say about Delores is that’s she’s expert at providing sound, reliable feedback as a demonstration of her ability to really hear what her client is saying as a commitment to their mental health and well-being. I’ve had a number of counselors who are part of BetterHelp. By far, Delores is the best, most professional counselor yet!

I’ve only had one session with Delores and it went very well. She’s a great listener, asks really good questions and is very easy to talk to.

She is truly incredible and has been an amazing listening ear!

I highly recommend Delores. You can tell she values your time and is never late for your session. She listens intently while you speak and provides valuable feedback to help solve any issue you may have. Really happy with our sessions and looking forward to working with her.

I am so grateful to have found Delores. She is compassionate, practical and extremely helpful to me. Her questions are thoughtful and intentional in the way they often guide me to my own answers. She clearly cares deeply about people and the work she does. Overall, a great deal of trust has been built, and I feel genuinely supported by Delores Smith.

Dolores has been very helpful and helped me get needed clarity.

Delores is AMAZING! I’ve already recommended her to multiple people. She’s kind, understanding and comforting.

I would recommend Ms. Delores especially to minority women. She is objective and understands the nuances to the life minority women face.

Delores has made a huge impact on me in a short period of time and has already helped open my eyes to things that I either did not realize or things I was not ready to face. Best part is she listens and has provided me complete validation of my feelings.

Delores is wonderful to talk to and always helps me see things more clearly. And for those times that I just need a sounding board, she has been great with that as well. In the short time that I've been working with her, she has made a tremendous difference in my life.

She is a great listener. She asked all the right questions and helped me pinpoint areas to focus and work on. She's very wonderful.

When I first began seeing Delores, I was all over the place & distraught by a build up of a multiple issues. She listened closely, validated my feelings, began to help me untangle my issues & then smartly started addressing the most immediate concerns. She encourages going at a comfortable pace, whatever that may be for me. She is a good listener—diligent, considerate, empathetic, intuitive & nonjudgmental. I have to say I was wary of an online counseling service, but I couldn’t be more blessed to have been assigned to her.

Delores is such a great listener. She def tries her best to let me figure out or answer my own questions. Never comes off judgements. She’s very respectful & I enjoy my sessions with her so much!!

She is awesome, extremely nice and professional! Thank you

It’s a good experience. I like to say things out loud and get feedback. She’s great at listening and helping you see the little things, that really are a big deal

Delores is amazing. I have been in counseling before but have never felt as positive about the process before. Not only does Delores listen, she asks the questions that require thought and reflection. Delores is extremely gifted.

Delores is consistent and insightful. She asks open ended questions that really make me think and I feel seen/heard and safe to open up. She responds consistently which tells me she values my time as well as her own. She is both professional and relatable, she gives me straight talk when I need it and offers gentle empathy in moment I share pain. While I am the one who chose to seek help and change my behaviors, it’s a relief and blessing to know someone is listening, offering guidance, being a sounding board for me to collect my thoughts and see my actions.

Delores is completely nonjudgemental and really helps you think through your immediate feelings and perspectives. I'm so grateful to work with her and am comfortable either letting her structure our sessions, or structuring our sessions on my own -- she's content to do either.

Ms Delores, is so caring, she listens, gives feedback, resolutions and homework, the work we are doing is changing my life and giving the tools I need to be successful!

Seems like a very experienced woman that would take all the knowledge and time she's got to help those who need it. She's supportive and you can talk with her knowing that whenever or wherever you do it, you can think of it as a safe place, where judgement's out of the table.

She's a great listener. Very prompt for appointment times and in response to messages. I feel very comfortable with her.

I think my counselor was very supportive. The day I spoke with her I had high anxiety. I think she understood why I was so anxious and had compassion towards what I was going through. And I’ve been very impressed that Dolores has reached out and checked on me a few times. If I was isolating by her reaching out would engage me. I think that is very kind of her. I also feel that it makes me feel cared about. I think she has qualities that makes her rare because many people wouldn’t devote the time in connecting with their clients.

she is amazing

She's great, I feel comfortable with her. We're just at the beginning but I have high hopes already. Thank you Dr. Smith.

Delores is a good listener! Her years of experience show through her well placed, insightful questions. She always leaves me with something to grow on.

Delores is very open to considering issues on your terms and given me great advice that has helped me resolve the problems I have been dealing with.

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