About Lorraine
Lorraine Granger is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 18 years of clinical practice in California. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by a harsh inner voice and who struggle with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, trauma, and relationship concerns. Lorraine uses straightforward, supportive work to help people notice patterns and choose kinder responses to themselves.
She centers sessions on paying attention to what the body and mind are telling you.
Background and approach
That calm focus helps identify old habits like overthinking, worry, people-pleasing, and distraction. Lorraine guides clients to shift those habits into more helpful, sustainable routines. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and somatic tools alongside trauma-release work.
In practical terms that means learning how thoughts, breathing, and body sensations link to mood and behavior, then practicing ways to change them. Sessions mix talking, skill practice, and grounding exercises. Lorraine aims to move at a pace each person can tolerate.
She emphasizes safety and respects whatever a person brings to the room. The work often includes learning to listen to your own inner experience and to replace self-criticism with a kinder internal coach. Over time clients often report clearer thinking, more manageable anxiety, and better emotional balance.
Lorraine supports people as they rebuild a steadier inner life and greater confidence about relationships, work, and daily routines.
How evidence-based methods fit into online care
Many of Lorraine's tools come from cognitive behavioral ideas, which help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT-style work often includes simple exercises to test negative thoughts and build alternative responses that reduce worry and self-criticism.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people become more aware of present-moment sensations without getting swept away. Mindfulness exercises can reduce rumination and make it easier to respond instead of react. In addition, somatic techniques focus on body sensations and breath to release tension and interrupt stress cycles, which can be useful for trauma-related reactivity.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the collaborative process. Lorraine works with each person to identify goals, tries approaches that match those goals, and adjusts based on what helps most. This means you'll experiment together and choose methods that fit your needs and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible access. Video works well for longer therapy sessions and skill practice, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, chat or text can fit quick check-ins or on-the-go support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping work focused on practical skills and emotional change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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