Dorothy Pedro, LCSW

Dorothy Pedro is an LCSW - a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - with 25 years of professional experience supporting individuals and families through difficult life events. She brings extensive experience in acute care hospital settings where she regularly addressed grief, trauma, suicide risk, and life-changing medical conditions, helping patients and their loved ones navigate immediate crises and make practical plans for moving forward.

Her clinical skill set includes motivational interviewing to help people create and pursue realistic goals amid chaotic circumstances, and Systems theory as a core framework for family work. By focusing on family and individual strengths, she helps families identify indirect pathways to change so that shifts in one part of a system produce positive ripple effects elsewhere. Dorothy emphasizes collaboration and respects the effort families already put into their own well-being, approaching each case as a team endeavor.

She has worked with military families and children and spent two years in a school-based program addressing homelessness by providing meals, counseling, home visits, and resource coordination. Dorothy has coordinated care with schools, courts, and child protective services when needed, and has provided couples counseling, family therapy, groups, and parenting-skills training while also learning practical strategies from the parents she works with.

Dorothy’s clinical approaches include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. She works with a broad range of concerns such as addictions, grief, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, stress and anxiety, LGBT issues, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, and coping with life changes.

Dorothy practices in Arizona and conducts therapy in English. She is currently accepting new clients and focuses on supporting families and individuals with compassionate, practical interventions. If a particular issue falls outside her scope, she will assist in finding an appropriate referral.