About Lorraine
Lorraine LaPorte is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, and challenges like codependency or communication problems. Lorraine aims to make starting therapy feel less daunting and more manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
She uses practical methods to help people build coping skills and improve day-to-day functioning. Sessions are conversational and straightforward, with attention to what is most pressing for each person.
Background and approach
Lorraine pays close attention to patterns in relationships and attachment as these often affect mood and stress. Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based work to clarify values, and client-centered listening to follow each person's priorities. She also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation or intense stress is present.
People meet her for help with addictions, career stress, life changes, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also supports work on body image, isolation, control issues, and finding a clearer sense of life purpose. Conversations focus on doable steps rather than abstract theory.
Lorraine has three years of professional practice as an LCSW in Pennsylvania. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Many clients find the variety of session formats helpful for fitting therapy into a busy life.
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts and feelings show up. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes because it helps people notice what matters and move toward it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and problem-solving in daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence present difficulties and helps people understand and change those interaction styles.Finding the right approach is part of the work and often changes over time. Lorraine will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That means sessions can focus on skill-building, values work, or exploring relationship patterns depending on what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. This mix makes it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other obligations while still using ACT, CBT, or attachment-focused work in the ways that help most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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