Dolores Walker, LPC

Dolores Walker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, substance use concerns, trauma, depression, and major life transitions. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping clients make concrete changes in their daily life.

She takes a whole-person view, looking at mind, body, and spirit rather than focusing on a single symptom. This helps uncover the root issues behind problems such as addiction, persistent anxiety, or repeating relationship patterns. Sessions are collaborative - she partners with each person to set goals and try practical steps between meetings.

Dolores uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and build values-driven habits. She also draws on Jungian ideas about meaning and Motivational Interviewing to support change when motivation is mixed or uncertain. These approaches are used together to fit the person in front of her rather than as rigid steps.

Her background includes long work with substance-related concerns and trauma, plus a broad practice addressing grief, parenting strain, career crossroads, and midlife challenges. She pays attention to patterns like attachment wounds, codependency, and communication breakdowns that often affect daily functioning.

Sessions are offered in English and take place online through video, phone, chat, or text. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a time that fits their life.

Evidence-informed approaches for online care

Dolores commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that feed anxiety or depression. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on values and committed action, helping people accept difficult thoughts while moving toward what matters most to them.

She treats approach selection as a collaborative process. Together the therapist and the person identify goals, try specific techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. That teamwork helps match tools to the client's situation rather than sticking to one fixed method.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep steady momentum toward change.