About Lorena
Lorena Silva is a licensed clinical social worker with three years of practice in California. She helps adults who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or big life changes. Her style is warm and collaborative, and she speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
She focuses on straightforward, practical work. Sessions often begin by identifying immediate stressors and simple steps to reduce anxiety. She also helps people facing relationship strain, grief from separation, and challenges tied to trauma or substance use.
Background and approach
Conversations move at the client's pace and focus on what feels most urgent. Lorena uses approaches that are grounded in evidence. That means using methods shown to help with panic attacks, mood shifts, and coping after hard experiences.
She explains options in plain language and checks in about what is helpful as work continues. People can expect a mix of short-term tools and longer-term exploration. That might include breathing or grounding techniques, skills to manage intense feelings, and talking through difficult decisions.
She also addresses issues like codependency, guilt, immigration stress, and loneliness. Her work is practical and goal-focused while staying compassionate. Lorena invites clients to take an active role in setting goals and tracking progress.
New clients can select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to begin.
Practical approaches and online care
Lorena uses evidence-based techniques that are focused on reducing symptoms and improving daily functioning. One common approach is short-term skill building that teaches breathing and grounding tools to reduce panic and intense anxiety episodes. These are simple practices people can use when worries spike. She also uses structured problem-solving to break large stressors into manageable steps. This helps with overwhelming life changes, decision making after separation, and managing responsibilities tied to immigration or family stress. The therapist reviews what works and adjusts the plan as needed. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lorena works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and changes course when something is not helpful. Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people have in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, brief coaching, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to use the format that feels most useful for managing anxiety and life transitions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
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