About Dina
Dina Velazquez uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, and depression. She introduces practical skills while listening for each person's goals and strengths.
Background and approach
Dina works to make therapy feel understandable and doable for someone juggling daily life and hard emotions. Dina is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - practicing in North Carolina.
She brings five years of clinical experience focused on mood and anxiety concerns, substance use, relationship strain, and caregiver stress. Her background includes supporting people facing chronic illness, loneliness, panic, and women's issues.
In sessions she combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new coping strategies, and build skills for tolerating difficult feelings.
She also draws on mindfulness and Jungian ideas when those approaches fit a person’s needs. Her work often begins by identifying one or two concrete goals.
Then she helps people try small changes and track what works. Clients can expect clear, practical tools alongside time to talk through painful experiences and life transitions.
Dina supports people navigating parenting stress, relationship challenges, and addiction recovery. She also works with those coping with chronic pain or illness and those feeling isolated or empty.
Her style is steady, direct, and focused on helping people move toward measurable relief. If someone wants to get started they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered through several online formats.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Many of Dina's sessions draw on client-centered therapy, which starts with the person's concerns and priorities and uses listening and reflection to shape the work. This approach helps people feel heard while they name goals and try changes.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a hands-on method that helps people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and panic. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed to manage intense feelings or recurring urges.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Dina will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when more connection is useful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers voice only. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints for coping and tracking progress. These options create flexibility so therapy can fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California, North Carolina
- Languages
- English