Dorothy Frazier, LCSW-R

Dorothy Frazier is an LCSW-R with more than 30 years of clinical experience, combining academic training, research, and hands-on practice to support people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship challenges, and trauma.

She completed clinical training at Columbia University graduate program and pursued postgraduate training at additional institutes, developing expertise in a range of evidence-based approaches including EMDR, CBT, psychoeducation, and psychodrama. Her research on trauma in the United States and abroad has informed both her clinical work and her contributions as a co-author and lecturer on topics such as trauma, mental illness, addiction, and how trauma shows up across men, women, and adolescents.

Over her career she has worked and supervised in diverse settings - inpatient psychiatric facilities, corporate employee assistance programs, prison systems, and outpatient services - and has provided care for professional athletes in the NFL. She also serves as an adjunct professor, bringing clinical experience into academic and training environments.

Dorothy focuses on helping clients with stress and anxiety, coping with addictions, relationship difficulties, and trauma and abuse. She emphasizes measurable change while recognizing that progress is a process, and she works with clients to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored. She supports people taking the first steps toward greater well-being and a more satisfying life.

Therapeutic Approaches and Virtual Care

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the individual as the expert on their own experience. The therapist provides empathic support and practical listening so clients can explore values, identify goals, and build self-directed solutions - helpful for relationship concerns, life purpose, and self-esteem issues.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and learning concrete strategies to change them. It is commonly used for anxiety, panic, stress, and patterns that contribute to emotional distress.

EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that uses guided processing to help people reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic memories. It is often applied when symptoms of post-traumatic stress or persistent trauma reactions are present.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Dorothy collaborates with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and together they determine which techniques or combination of therapies will best support progress.

Online sessions make it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging allow flexible scheduling and access from different locations, while still enabling meaningful connection with licensed professionals and therapists who guide treatment and offer ongoing support.