Lenita Marquez, LMHC

Lenita Marquez, LMHC, focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or waves of grief. She aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so clients can start using new tools quickly. Many come seeking help with mood concerns, addictive patterns, trauma, or questions about intimacy and identity. Lenita brings nine years of clinical experience in Washington to her practice. She favors a person-centered stance that treats the client as the expert on their life. Within that frame she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to address unhelpful thoughts, intense emotions, and coping skills. She also uses existential ideas to help people find meaning in hard changes and the Gottman Method for work on communication and relationship patterns. Sessions include straightforward skill-building, focused conversations about patterns, and collaborative goal-setting. Lenita pays attention to practical steps people can try between sessions, such as behavioral experiments or day-to-day routines. She also listens for deeper themes like loss, abandonment, or attachment histories that shape current struggles. Clients may bring concerns about parenting stress, blended family issues, body image, co-occurring substance use, or ADHD symptoms. She has experience addressing domestic violence, divorce and separation, and compassion fatigue in clinical work. People meet Lenita for clear guidance and steady support while they test changes and develop stronger emotional regulation. To begin, prospective clients use the site intake flow to match and schedule according to availability.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate to online work

Lenita blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in practical ways. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete exercises to test new ways of thinking. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to help with intense emotions and stronger coping skills. DBT skills often include emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness practices that can be taught and practiced during sessions. Finding the right approach is a joint effort. Lenita will discuss goals, try approaches, and adjust based on what helps most. She collaborates with each person to pick techniques that fit their needs and daily life rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Confirm which session formats are available before booking, since the profile does not list specific options. Online work can help fit therapy into a busy schedule by reducing travel time, offering shorter check-ins when needed, and allowing people to practice skills in their everyday routines. It also makes it easier to maintain continuity during life transitions while the therapist and client work together on concrete steps and coping strategies.