About Lorette
Lorette Cristino is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety or who are struggling with relationships, family tension, and low self-esteem. She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and purposeful.
Lorette creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through their thoughts and feelings. She listens for what matters most and helps clients build small, practical steps toward their goals.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize realistic coping tools that can be used between meetings. Her work also covers life transitions and a range of related concerns. These include issues around abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment questions, and blended family dynamics.
She also supports people facing body image worries, codependency, communication struggles, and caregiver stress. Lorette has experience addressing serious challenges such as domestic violence, divorce and separation, and substance use concerns. She also helps with eating and food-related issues and feelings of emptiness that can follow major life changes.
Her approach stays focused on what clients need right now. People who prefer talking through things in plain language often find her style approachable. She invites clients to take the pace that fits them and to work on goals that feel meaningful.
Lorette aims to be a steady presence as people build skills and regain confidence.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Many clients find benefit in evidence-based techniques that focus on managing symptoms and building skills. One common approach emphasizes practical coping strategies for stress and anxiety - teaching simple breathing, grounding, and thought-management tools to use during difficult moments. Another helpful method focuses on communication and relationship skills - practicing clearer ways to express needs, set boundaries, and repair connection with others.Figuring out which approaches to use is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day realities. Together they review what feels useful and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, so the approach stays aligned with changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep making progress. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper interaction is helpful. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick reflections, homework check-ins, or when someone prefers typing over talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while keeping focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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