LENITA MARQUEZ

LENITA MARQUEZ is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Washington, with nine years of clinical experience across private practice, community mental health, and corrections settings. She has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and domestic violence, substance use, guilt and shame, codependency, personality disorders, and women’s issues. Her specialties also include stress, addictions, self-esteem, LGBT concerns, family conflict, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, anger management, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

She has a particular rapport with women aged roughly 19 to 50, and has supported professional women, housewives, single women, and college students in discovering greater clarity about their purpose, passions, and values. Although she did not set out to focus on this population, she found early in her work that she is especially able to empathize with and support women from diverse backgrounds.

LENITA’s counseling style is direct, warm, and interactive. She focuses on identifying and building client strengths, believing that a strengths-based approach fosters emotional growth and enhances self-worth. She engages clients with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and avoids stigmatizing labels.

Her work is goal-directed and solution-focused; she is open and direct about her clinical impressions to help clients move toward their goals and feel empowered to change. In many cases this straightforward, honest approach helps clients discover greater personal power, purpose, and resilience.

LENITA integrates several therapeutic approaches, including cognitive-behavioral methods, family systems theory, humanistic and existential perspectives, positive psychology, and mindfulness. She is trained and certified to provide trauma-focused therapy, substance use treatment, and family therapy, and is well versed in best-practice approaches for the disorders she treats. Treatment planning is individualized and collaborative, tailored to each client’s specific needs.

She is licensed to practice in Washington as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, holding an LMHC credential (license LH 61015543). When a person is ready to begin work toward their goals and self-exploration, LENITA is prepared to serve as a guide through that process and looks forward to working with new clients.