Lenita Marquez, LMHC

Lenita Marquez is a Washington-based licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with nine years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life changes. Her approach is calm and practical, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more in control of everyday life.

She favors a client-centered stance that keeps each conversation focused on what matters most to the person in the room. Lenita blends that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when people need tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Sessions are straightforward and conversational. Lenita listens, helps set small goals, and teaches coping skills people can use between meetings. She pays attention to relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, adoption and foster care issues, and the tensions that come with blended families and attachment wounds.

Her background includes work with people recovering from trauma and abuse, those navigating substance use and codependency, and folks managing ADHD and compassion fatigue. She brings practical strategies for communication problems, anger, and control issues alongside emotional processing for abandonment and loss.

People who want a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist often choose her. She asks clear questions, helps lay out next steps, and supports gradual change over time.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to the client. It helps people clarify their values and make choices that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors to find practical changes that reduce anxiety and depression. CBT is useful for stress, mood concerns, and habit changes like reducing substance use.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Sessions are meant to be a team effort where the client and therapist decide what works together.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day and to keep momentum between sessions. It also supports shorter check-ins when time is limited and allows use of digital tools for homework and skills practice. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and client-centered work to online meetings, helping clients practice coping skills and track progress from one session to the next.