Hi, I’m Lorrin. I want to help empower you to feel more like yourself. I work with clients from a systemic point of view. My clients present with a variety of issues including but not limited to anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, adjustment concerns, relationship problems, and communication issues. I take an eclectic approach to therapy by using techniques from several treatment modalities to help you heal from trauma, find balance, and discover skills to help cope with a variety of struggles. I specialize in helping clients with communication and relationship issues learn to function more cohesively within their relationships through the development of clear boundaries. We will work as a team to help you reprocess past trauma, make connections that help you function better, and restructure unhealthy thought processes. My job is to assist you in forming adaptive coping skills, healthy thinking styles, effective communication, clear boundaries, as well as a sense of self-compassion and empowerment. I’m glad you’re here!
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
At our first session I will conduct a detailed assessment of your history and we will create a collaborative treatment plan. After your first session with me we will have an idea of your goals for therapy and how often we will meet with each other. I consider the first 6-8 sessions to be an “assessment phase” of therapy where we get to know each other, which will give me a better idea of your strengths and how we may proceed with meeting your goals. Following the assessment phase, we will work together to help you find relief, feel better about yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
From a person-centered, trauma informed perspective I use a variety of treatment modalities when working with clients. This includes cognitive behavioral, experiential, feminist, and narrative therapies. Specifically, I encourage clients to tell (and retell) their story in a nonjudgmental space. will then allow me to provide psychoeducation, reframing, alternative perspectives, systematic desensitization, immediacy, and assertive communication skills to help clients uncover their strengths, find balance, and feel more in control of their lives.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I am a systemic therapist. This means I view my clients in relation to the other people in their lives and the systems they interact with on a regular basis (family, friends, work, school, community, etc.). From my perspective, the systems we interact with and the perspectives we take on the quality of our relationships with those systems may impact our experience with mental health. My biggest strengths are helping clients open up to acknowledge their pain, realize their own strengths, formulate new perspectives, and learn new (healthy, adaptive) ways to cope with their struggles.