Trinity Salazar, LCSW

Trinity Salazar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with eight years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship struggles, and parenting challenges. She offers a steady, compassionate approach and focuses on helping clients find practical ways to cope and move forward. Trinity works collaboratively and meets people where they are in their lives. Her approach uses evidence-based techniques, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, alongside family-centered ways of looking at problems. Sessions emphasize clear goals, skill-building, and opportunities to talk through painful memories or current conflicts. Trinity draws on experience from school, in-home, and outpatient settings to adapt strategies to everyday life. Trinity has worked with military populations and veterans in multiple roles, including service with U.S. Special Operations Command and support at a veterans transition center. She has presented on posttraumatic stress related to film work and currently contributes as a Military Family Life Consultant in Moore County Schools. She also teaches as a Teaching Associate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in Social Work from Fayetteville State University. She is enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania’s Doctor of Clinical Social Work program and is researching suicide in the U.S. military for her dissertation. In sessions clients can expect straightforward conversation, skill practice, and a focus on manageable steps toward change. Trinity offers support for a wide range of life transitions and complex reactions to stress and trauma.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change upsetting thoughts and behaviors linked to traumatic events. It often uses gradual exposure to memories and teaches coping skills for intense emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on clear, practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. It tends to use homework and skill practice to help reduce anxiety, improve mood, and manage sleep or stress problems. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort. That might mean focusing on trauma processing, building coping skills, or involving family-centered strategies when relevant. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and letting people meet from different locations. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight and make it simpler to keep continuity of care if someone moves or travels. Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are available and can plan sessions that match your daily routine and communication preferences.