About Lorrie
Lorrie Herzberg is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She holds LCSW in California and LICSW in Massachusetts and brings steady, practical support to people facing hard moments. She aims to treat each person with respect and compassion and to build a plan that fits their situation.
She helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and big life changes. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Other focuses include caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, aging issues, and challenges like abandonment or family of origin wounds. Lorrie uses several therapeutic approaches tailored to the individual. Sessions draw on client-centered work to prioritize the client's goals and on trauma-focused methods when past events continue to cause pain.
She also uses mindfulness techniques and psychodynamic ideas to uncover patterns that keep people stuck. Her practice balances compassion with clear goals. Conversations are grounded and practical so people leave with ideas they can try between sessions.
She partners with clients to decide which tools and approaches will help most. Lorrie welcomes questions about the process and what therapy might look like. She asks clients about their needs and preferences and adjusts the plan as work unfolds.
The pace and focus are set together so each person moves forward at a manageable speed.
Online approaches for trauma and everyday stress
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the person in the room. The therapist listens closely and helps clients set and pursue clear goals, making changes at a manageable pace. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method used to reduce the emotional hold of disturbing memories and can help when past events keep disrupting day-to-day life. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and build calm in stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that match the client's goals and comfort level. This is collaborative - goals and techniques are reviewed and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and differing needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can work better when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and step-by-step coaching possible between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving routines, or other daily commitments while still accessing licensed professionals and structured therapeutic support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English