Lourdes Mayes, LCSW

Lourdes Mayes is a bilingual licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in California. She brings 21 years of experience helping people navigate depression, anxiety, grief, stress, and relationship strains. Lourdes speaks English and Spanish and aims to make each session feel comfortable and nonjudgmental.

She uses practical strategies so clients can address root causes and make workable changes. Sessions often include skill-building for communication, problem solving, anger management, and improving connection and intimacy. Lourdes helps people recognize patterns that keep them stuck and choose actions that match their values.

Her approach blends acceptance and commitment methods with cognitive and emotion-focused work. That mix supports people coping with addiction, trauma, eating concerns, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, and forgiveness.

Clients can expect straightforward tools they can try between sessions. Lourdes emphasizes empathy, respect, and clear goals so progress is measurable. Her aim is to help people discover small shifts that lead to lasting change.

She welcomes discussions about parenting challenges, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related issues. The work is collaborative and paced to match the person’s readiness and goals.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, low mood, and repeating patterns that feed jealousy or relationship distress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and impulse-related concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then recommend ways of working that fit those aims. This is a collaborative process that may blend elements from different approaches to match what the client needs.

Practical benefits of online therapy include easier fitting of sessions into a busy week, shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and options for working in quieter surroundings. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find that meeting remotely makes it simpler to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, and daily life.