Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
How Dora works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Dora
Dr. Dora Whiteside is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 17 years of practice. She approaches therapy as a chance to help people find more calm, joy, and meaning in everyday life.
She often begins by building a steady, respectful relationship and then tailoring sessions to each person's needs. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, grief, ADHD, and anger.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy challenges, body image, and career or life changes. Sessions reflect practical problem-solving alongside emotional exploration. Dora uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside client-centered and mindfulness approaches.
In sessions she helps people spot unhelpful thinking, practice new behaviors, and notice patterns that matter. She also draws on deeper reflective ideas from Jungian and existential perspectives when that fits. Her style is warm and goal-oriented.
She aims to create a safe space for honest conversation and clear steps forward. People who come to her can expect direct feedback, skill-building, and encouragement to try new ways of coping. Having worked in diverse settings, she has experience with a wide range of cultural backgrounds and presenting problems.
If someone wants a therapist who blends structured tools with personal insight work, she offers a practical and compassionate approach to change.
What Dora works with
Everything Dora lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Dora's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dora lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered work focuses on the relationship and on understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions by the client’s goals and preferences.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches skills to change unhelpful thinking and to try different behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, anger, and stress.
Mindfulness methods train simple awareness of thoughts and bodily signals. These practices support greater calm, better sleep, and more thoughtful responses to triggers.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and style. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break while at work. Live chat or text-based messaging can serve for brief check-ins, skill coaching, or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
Questions people ask about Dora
What kinds of concerns does she help address?
She works with many issues including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, bipolar symptoms, anger, grief, and ADHD, plus relationship and intimacy-related matters.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach blends practical techniques and reflective conversation. Sessions focus on building rapport, learning skills, and making achievable changes.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
She has 17 years of clinical experience and has worked in varied settings with clients from many cultural backgrounds and presenting problems.
What credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How do fees and the subscription work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.