About Maria
Maria "Patti" Lorenzo is a licensed clinical professional counselor with twelve years of experience. She helps people who feel stuck by guiding them to kinder self-talk and clearer emotional habits. Her work often focuses on everyday shifts that make life feel more manageable.
Patti sees many people dealing with anxiety, overthinking, and self-criticism. She also supports those facing emotional exhaustion, burnout, and the strain of people-pleasing. Her aim is to make practical changes that fit into daily life.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions include noticing patterns, building awareness, and trying small, realistic changes. She uses warmth, direct reflection, and gentle accountability to help clients practice new ways of responding to stress.
Patti often supports women working through life transitions, identity shifts, menopause-related emotional changes, relationship stress, and the pressure to hold things together for others. She helps clients move from surviving to having clearer choices about how they show up each day. In sessions she focuses on concrete tools and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Clients can expect practical skills alongside exploration of feelings and beliefs. The work emphasizes durable habits and clearer self-understanding that carry into everyday routines.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck and clarify their values so they can take meaningful action. It is often helpful for anxiety, overthinking, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve mood. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, stress, and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build safer ways of relating to themselves and others, which can ease intimacy-related concerns and attachment issues.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions can blend elements of ACT, CBT, attachment work, and client-centered care as progress and circumstances suggest.
Online therapy with this clinician can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging lets clients reflect between sessions. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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