About Lorien
Lorien Nelson helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, low mood, or doubts about purpose and motivation. She introduces straightforward strategies that aim to reduce distress and build confidence. Lorien’s tone is practical and direct, and she focuses on small steps that make daily life easier.
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - licensed in Arizona and brings ten years of mental health experience to her work.
Background and approach
Lorien draws on a background that includes psychotherapy, care coordination, and professional coaching. She uses that mix to look at both personal patterns and the everyday context that affects them. In sessions she listens, asks clear questions, and works with each person to identify strengths they can use right away.
Lorien helps clients notice thoughts and habits that get in the way, and then tries different practical ways to change them. She aims for a plan that feels doable and fits the client’s life. Her focus areas include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self esteem, depression, and coaching.
She also helps people facing blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, communication and control issues, divorce and separation, and life purpose concerns. Lorien often uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside mindfulness and motivational techniques. She adapts conversations and goals to each person so therapy is concrete and relevant.
Exploring therapy is a brave step, and she aims to make the work feel purposeful and manageable.
How Lorien’s Approaches Work Online
Lorien commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that align with personal values to build a meaningful life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about current struggles, goals, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods, adjust what isn’t helping, and agree on clear, manageable steps to practice between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let clients send thoughts and questions in the moment or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make regular contact easier and help therapy fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English