About Lorien
Lorien Nelson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a decade of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away and offers coaching to build motivation and confidence. She draws on social work skills to gather a clear history and understand how life circumstances affect mental health.
That helps her spot patterns in thinking and behavior that keep problems going.
Background and approach
She then works with each person to set realistic goals and small steps toward change. Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward. Lorien listens, helps people identify strengths, and suggests exercises to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
She uses tools from behavior-focused therapies and mindfulness to reduce overwhelm and increase day-to-day coping. Her background includes work in healthcare, mental and behavioral health, care coordination, case management, and professional coaching and mentoring. She also has experience supporting members of the United States Veteran community.
Lorien practices in Arizona and brings a practical, supportive style to therapy. She aims to make the process manageable for people juggling family, work, or caregiving duties, and she helps clients create plans they can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and situations that leave someone feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior through small experiments and skill practice, which can reduce symptoms like worry and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to tailor strategies to real-life schedules and challenges.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are good for full sessions that feel similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or fitting support into a busy day. These options help people access consistent care around work, family, or caregiving commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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