Dorothy Frazier

Dorothy Frazier is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of professional experience. She completed clinical training at Columbia University and has worked in a wide range of settings. Dorothy has researched trauma here and abroad and has presented and published on trauma-related topics.

She has provided services in inpatient psychiatric settings, employee assistance programs, prisons, and outpatient clinics. She has also worked with professional athletes and lectured on how trauma, addiction, and mental illness can show up in peoplelives. These roles gave her experience in acute and chronic trauma and addiction concerns.

Dorothy uses approaches such as Client-Centered Therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. In sessions she focuses on listening, building trust, and helping people try practical new ways to cope. She aims to make the room a place where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment.

She helps people manage stress and anxiety, address addiction and relationship problems, and work through trauma and abuse. Her additional focus areas include communication problems, control issues, hoarding, immigration concerns, guilt and shame, and isolation or loneliness.

Taking the first step can feel hard. Dorothy works with each person to set realistic goals and to find steps that fit their life. She also draws on teaching and research experience to inform her work when it is helpful.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and following the client's concerns. In practice this means the therapist listens, reflects what she hears, and helps clients identify their own solutions; it can help with stress, relationship worries, and feelings of loneliness.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Sessions often use short exercises and skill practice to reduce anxiety, panic, or unhelpful patterns over time.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to address traumatic memories by combining guided recall with specific bilateral stimulation techniques. It is often chosen when trauma symptoms and post-traumatic stress are a central concern.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Dorothy will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest ways of working that may fit best. Decisions are made collaboratively and can be adjusted as progress is tracked.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people meet with licensed professionals who have particular experience with trauma, anxiety, and isolation without needing to change their daily routine.