About Lorraine
Lorraine Gonzalez is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and major life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 15 years of professional experience to each session. Her approach is straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away.
She treats conversations as a shared effort. Lorraine listens first, then adapts guidance to match a person’s situation and goals.
Background and approach
She aims to make sessions feel respectful, calm, and focused on what matters most to the client. Her work often addresses attention-related concerns such as ADHD and the everyday effects of feeling overwhelmed. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, attachment and caregiver stress, and challenges related to autism spectrum conditions.
Lorraine helps with problems that affect relationships and daily life, including communication difficulties, codependency, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose. She also has experience with post-traumatic stress and forgiveness work. In a first meeting she will talk about what you want to change and suggest practical steps to try between sessions.
Sessions can include building routines, practicing communication strategies, and developing coping tools for stressful moments. Her goal is to empower people to make steady, realistic progress toward a more manageable life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that focus on changing daily habits and reactions. One common approach works on building specific coping skills and routines to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression; it teaches small steps you can use when stress rises. Another approach centers on improving communication and problem solving in relationships, helping people practice clearer ways to express needs and set boundaries. A third area often addressed is attention-related strategies for ADHD, which include structuring tasks, creating reminders, and breaking work into manageable pieces.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Lorraine will discuss your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that fit your situation. If something isn’t working, she will adjust the approach in collaboration with you so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets you share thoughts between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish