About Lenita
Lenita Marquez is a Washington-based licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. She brings nine years of clinical experience and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Her tone is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at people who need clear support during hard times.
She offers a calm space to talk through trauma, depression, parenting strain, and issues around identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building skills for everyday life, improving communication, and reducing overwhelming emotions. Lenita pays attention to how past experiences such as abandonment or foster care affect current relationships. Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s goals and perspectives.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior strategies to manage intense feelings. For relationship concerns she applies elements of the Gottman Method to improve connection and problem solving. Lenita blends evidence-informed tools with a practical, down-to-earth style.
She helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills between sessions, and notice small changes over time. Her background includes nine years supporting people through life transitions and co-occurring concerns such as addiction and trauma. People meet with Lenita to reduce distress and gain clearer ways to cope.
She works in English and practices in Washington as an LMHC. The focus is on steady progress and usable strategies rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy places the person’s goals and perspective first. It focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people decide what changes matter most. This approach works well for people who need space to sort out feelings and make sense of what they want.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches clear strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives concrete skills to practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds tools for regulating strong emotions and improving distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and which methods feel most comfortable. Together they decide whether to focus on skill-building, emotional regulation, or relationship work and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions can fit a midday break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep work going between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English