About Lorena
Lorena Silva is a licensed clinical social worker who helps adults manage anxiety, stress, depression, and big life changes. She has three years of clinical experience and works in California. Lorena speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and approachable.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, self-esteem, and relationship concerns. Sessions focus on practical steps people can take between appointments. Lorena emphasizes clear goals and small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and collaborative. She encourages clients to speak candidly about what is hard and what is working. The therapist and client set the pace together so the work feels manageable.
Common issues she helps people talk through include stress, panic attacks, mood problems, and the emotional fallout from separation or domestic violence. She also supports people facing codependency, communication struggles, addiction concerns, immigration-related stress, and feelings of isolation. Clients can expect conversations that balance problem-solving with emotional support.
Lorena aims to help people build coping skills, improve communication, and find clearer direction after major life events.
Evidence-based methods and online care that fit your life
Lorena uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One common approach helps people learn practical coping skills for anxiety and panic, such as breathing strategies, grounding exercises, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. These techniques are useful for reducing acute worry and improving daily functioning.Another approach concentrates on processing trauma and difficult experiences by helping people make sense of painful memories and reduce their emotional intensity. This work often includes skills for managing strong feelings and building a sense of safety in everyday life. Both approaches aim to give skills and understanding, not quick fixes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Lorena works collaboratively with each person to identify goals and preferences, then adjusts methods over time based on what helps most. Clients are involved in planning each step so the work fits their needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules while keeping the focus on useful, evidence-based work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese