About Lorena
Lorena Griese is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in New Mexico. She helps people who are coping with stress and anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, low self-esteem, and grief. She also supports those facing trauma, compassion fatigue, parenting struggles, and issues around intimacy and identity.
Lorena has five years of experience as an LMFT. Lorena sees therapy as a collaborative effort. She treats each person as the expert on their own story and helps them build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings, and on clear goals that feel manageable. Her work often centers on everyday skills for handling strong emotions. That can include ways to reduce overwhelm, improve communication, and rebuild confidence after setbacks.
She pays attention to how stress affects relationships and parenting, and tailors the pace to each person. Lorena has experience with first responder issues and understands the pressure those roles bring. She also offers support for people in the LGBT community who are managing identity-related stress or relationship strain.
Her approach aims to be straightforward and respectful. People typically start by naming one or two concerns to focus on. From there she helps set realistic steps and tracks progress over time.
The goal is to leave sessions with tools that feel useful in daily life.
Approaches for Anxiety and Relationship Stress Online
Many people find benefit from practical, evidence-based techniques that target worry and relationship strain. One useful approach teaches skills for managing strong emotions and reducing anxiety through steady, step-by-step practice. It helps people notice patterns, calm intense reactions, and try small changes that make daily life easier.Another common method focuses on improving communication and connection in relationships. This involves learning clearer ways to express needs, listen without judgment, and handle conflict so disagreements feel more manageable. It can be helpful for parenting strain, intimacy concerns, and family conflict.
Finding the right fit is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, preferences, and what feels doable. That collaboration allows methods to be adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy or unpredictable schedules. Video calls let conversations feel face-to-face, while phone sessions require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging can be shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or shift schedules and to maintain momentum over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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