About Lorraine
Lorraine Gonzalez is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 15 years of experience and a calm, respectful approach to conversations about mental health. Lorraine speaks both English and Spanish and works with clients from New York and beyond.
She focuses on practical support for common concerns such as relationship strain, depression, and coping with life changes. She also addresses attention challenges related to ADHD and offers help around isolation, guilt, and finding life purpose.
Background and approach
Lorraine offers care for issues connected to adoption and foster care, aging, attachment, and caregiver stress. Sessions are shaped to fit each person's needs. Lorraine listens first, then tailors goals and steps that feel manageable.
She values straightforward plans you can try between meetings, and she helps you check what is and isn’t working. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She encourages small, steady changes rather than quick fixes.
Lorraine supports people who want to understand their patterns, improve communication, and reduce overwhelming feelings. Practical matters such as scheduling and session format are discussed together so therapy fits daily life. She accepts international clients and offers options in English and Spanish to make care more accessible.
Practical therapy approaches delivered online
Many clients find relief from anxiety and stress through structured, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thinking and building coping skills. Cognitive-style strategies help people identify anxious thoughts and test them against real-life evidence to reduce worry and avoidance. Behavioral techniques focus on gradual exposure to feared situations and on building routines that reduce overwhelm and improve mood.Another helpful approach emphasizes problem-solving and coping skills for life changes. This involves breaking problems into steps, practicing communication tools, and creating small experiments to try between sessions. These methods are useful for relationship strain, role changes, and everyday stressors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lorraine collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in as progress unfolds and adjusts the plan when something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit a brief check-in, and messaging is useful for ongoing support between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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