About Lita
Dr. Lita Carvalho offers support for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, ADHD, grief, parenting strain, and issues with self-esteem or anger. She greets visitors warmly and acknowledges how hard it can feel to ask for help.
Lita presents herself as a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with two decades of experience. She writes in a straightforward, calm tone and invites people to take the next step when they feel ready.
Background and approach
Her work is grounded in a client-centered style. Sessions are shaped around each person's goals and pace. Lita blends practical strategies with attention to how thoughts, feelings, and relationships interact.
She aims to make sessions useful from the first visit, focusing on skills people can apply between meetings. Over twenty years in the field have given her exposure to many presenting issues and life stages. She combines clinical practice with a background in research, which informs a thoughtful, evidence-aware approach.
That means she draws on approaches supported by research while keeping the conversation clear and down to earth. Common goals people bring include managing stress, improving sleep and eating patterns, coping with change, and building better emotional regulation. Lita also works with concerns around intimacy, caregiving strain, and career stress.
She emphasizes collaboration and practical steps to help people feel more in control of day-to-day challenges. Therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and logistics are arranged after a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) centers on clarifying personal values and taking useful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by teaching committed steps aligned with what matters to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and then testing and changing them with practical exercises. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating difficulties. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills. It is useful for managing intense emotions, anger, and relationship-related struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then recommend or combine methods that match those needs. That collaborative process helps ensure sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility across different formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or to have shorter, focused conversations during a busy week. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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