Lorena Thomas, LPC

Lorena Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and creates a respectful, compassionate space where clients can voice their thoughts and fears. Her style is collaborative and focused on practical steps toward feeling better.

With six years of experience, Lorena tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person's needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), client-centered methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches to guide the work. That variety lets her match tools to the concern at hand.

Lorena encourages clients to take the lead in their healing while she offers structure and skill-building. She helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns, practice new coping skills, and build confidence in everyday life. Sessions often include clear exercises and achievable goals.

She also addresses practical stressors such as workplace strain, relationship and communication problems, money worries, caregiving stress, and the challenges of aging. Lorena works to reduce isolation and shame and to strengthen self-love and resilience over time.

Therapy with her focuses on collaborative problem solving. Expect respectful listening, straightforward suggestions, and tools you can use between sessions. The aim is to help clients make changes that improve their daily life and long-term wellbeing.

How therapy approaches fit into online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical exercises. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and improving daily coping skills.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a nonjudgmental space where the client leads the work. This approach supports building self-confidence and finding personal solutions at a comfortable pace.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.

Online sessions come in several formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - so therapy can fit into busy lives. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are convenient when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect in writing over time. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and accessible from different locations.