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"Hi, I'm Lorene and I'm glad you're here. As one who has experienced a loved one suffer with trauma and depression, I'm here to say that you don't have to deal with your struggles alone. I am here to offer a safe and supportive environment for your needs. "

As a licensed therapist with over three decades of experience, I specialize in supporting individuals through life's complex challenges. My practice centers on helping clients navigate stress, anxiety, relationship dynamics, and healing from past traumas. I bring a compassionate, faith-informed approach to counseling, with a deep understanding of issues affecting women, veterans, and older adults. 

My therapeutic work focuses on empowering clients to develop self-love, improve communication, explore life purpose, and work through codependency. I'm particularly skilled at supporting individuals in processing difficult experiences, finding paths to forgiveness, and building resilience. 

Drawing from extensive clinical experience, I create a supportive environment where clients can explore their challenges, develop coping strategies, and move toward personal growth. My approach is rooted in respect, understanding, and commitment to helping each person discover their inner strength and potential. 

"I don’t believe our struggles or shortcomings define us — they shape us. My work is informed by professional training and enriched by my own experiences with trauma, loss, and healing, allowing me to offer a space where clients feel genuinely seen, understood, and empowered to create meaningful change while recognizing their resilience, strengths, and capacity for growth. "

I am a licensed professional counselor with over six years of experience in behavioral and mental health counseling. I am dedicated to helping individuals navigate life's challenges with compassion and evidence-based care. My approach is client-centered and collaborative. I strive to create a safe, supportive environment where clients feel heard and empowered. I work with adolescents and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, life transitions, self-esteem concerns, relationship challenges, grief, and difficulties with emotional regulation. 

I draw from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, and strengths-based techniques to help clients develop healthy coping skills and build resilience. I have a special interest in helping clients process trauma and how childhood experiences can shape thoughts, emotions, and behaviors into adulthood. 

If you're carrying pain from past experiences, feeling stuck, or simply trying to understand yourself better, you don't have to go through it alone. Healing is possible, and it often begins with being heard. If you feel ready, I invite you to take the next step toward change and begin your journey toward healing and growth.

"Having lived experience with a multitude of situations and conditions, I use a whole person model approach to support a person in the exploration of their authentic self for healing, growth & development, and identifying their resilience in life's ups and downs. "

I am a licensed independent clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience. Working with individuals of varying backgrounds and challenging issues—including addictions (all forms), complex post-traumatic stress, grief and loss, and difficult life transitions—has given me the ability to see and support people through their most difficult burdens, help them gain skills and insight, and uncover their strengths, capabilities, and resolve. People just want to feel better, have a sense of agency, and live life with some peace. I am honored to walk that journey with them.

I draw on a multitude of clinical modalities. Looking at an individual's history, childhood experiences, strengths, and challenges helps determine the best course of action—and the client always has the final say in their care. I am honest, compassionately confrontational, and reality-based, helping clients find the courage and insight to reach their goals.

I understand the difficulty in asking for help and the resistance to leaning on someone else to make real changes. I know the hurt you don't want anyone to know about and the deep-seated need to be understood. Let me walk alongside you—offering support, encouragement, and insight. Take that HUGE step forward and schedule an appointment. I am here for you.

"I perceive myself as an open - minded, empathic individual with appreciation for the uniqueness of every individual grounded in the belief that each of us is a product of our experiences and choices with a potential for growth and positive change."

I am a licensed therapist with 16-plus years of experience in community mental health, community crisis assessments and ER psych assessments for level of care. I have worked with clients faced with challenges of severe mental illness, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, low self-esteem, lack of motivation, anger, grief, and interpersonal conflicts.

My counseling approach is grounded in my belief that our mental health and well-being are based upon self-awareness, self-acceptance, overcoming resistance to change, and making helpful choices. My endeavor is to provide a safe space to help people enhance their self-awareness and motivate them to make helpful choices that minimize self-sabotage.

Where there is a will, there is a way." If you have a will for helpful change and growth, I welcome you to schedule an appointment such that we can partner in finding the road to your personal growth. "God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.