- Licensed inCalifornia
- License113252
- NPI 1043462039
- Experience20+ years
- LanguagesEnglish
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About Lita
Dr. Lita Carvalho helps people coping with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, grief, parenting strain, and many other life challenges. She works with issues like attachment concerns, self-esteem, intimacy, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and career stress.
Dr. Carvalho is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of clinical experience. Her style is straightforward and collaborative.
Sessions are client-centered and shaped around each person's goals. She listens for patterns from early relationships and current behavior, then uses practical strategies to change unhelpful habits.
Background and approach
Dr. Carvalho blends attachment-based perspectives with cognitive and behavioral tools. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when useful.
Therapy focuses on what people want to change and on small, doable steps to get there. She draws on two decades of work in mental health and on a background that includes doctoral research in biophysics. That mix informs a thoughtful, evidence-minded approach rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Sessions move at a comfortable pace set by the client. People who prefer clear options and practical skill-building often find this approach helpful. Dr.
Carvalho aims to help clients make steady progress on relationship patterns, emotional regulation, and coping with life transitions.
Credentials
- LMFT (California)
- License 113252 · expires May 2027
- NPI
- 1043462039 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lita lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lita names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- 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
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how they show up now. Online sessions can help people understand these patterns and try new ways of relating in daily life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches practical ways to accept difficult thoughts and commit to values-based action; it helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on small behavioral changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thinking, feeling, and behaving; it provides clear exercises and tools to change unhelpful thoughts and routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Dr. Carvalho works collaboratively with each client to choose and adapt methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for short updates or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow for brief practice between meetings, and let clients pick the format that best supports steady progress.
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Frequently asked
What kinds of problems does Dr. Carvalho address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, parenting concerns, ADHD, and many related issues such as attachment problems and self-esteem.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative. She listens first, then uses gentle coaching and practical skills to help people change patterns.
What professional background does she bring?
Dr. Carvalho has 20 years in mental health and doctoral research experience in biophysics, which she uses to inform an evidence-minded approach.
Where is Dr. Carvalho licensed and practicing?
She is a California licensed marriage and family therapist, credentialed as LMFT, offering services based in California.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Dr. Carvalho?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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