About Lorena
Lorena Allen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 11 years of professional experience. She has worked in court-related and clinical settings and supports people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and major life changes. Lorena speaks English and Spanish and aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for a worried parent or an overwhelmed individual.
Her background includes roles in family court, crisis centers, outpatient substance use programs, and outpatient mental health clinics.
Background and approach
She has collaborated with multidisciplinary teams including school staff, psychiatrists, and legal and child welfare representatives. These experiences shape a practical approach to common life challenges and crisis moments. In sessions she leans on evidence-based therapeutic techniques such as cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness practices.
She uses strategies that help people understand their thinking patterns, reduce panic or worry, and build clearer coping plans for grief, relationship strain, or mood shifts. Lorena aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can share thoughts and feelings. She works with people across different ages and cultural backgrounds who face stressors from home, work, or school.
Her style is collaborative and direct, focusing on small, doable steps between sessions. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide options that fit busy schedules and varied needs.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Lorena uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. This approach breaks problems into concrete thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so clients can try small experiments and see what helps with anxiety or low mood.She also incorporates mindfulness practices to help reduce rumination and panic symptoms. Mindfulness exercises focus on attention and grounding skills that people can use during moments of worry or after upsetting events.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lorena works with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and daily life. She checks in regularly to adjust strategies and keep work practical and goal-oriented.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people have full conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework review, or when typing is easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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