About Lorene
Lorene Floyd is a licensed professional counselor with 36 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship strain. Lorene speaks plainly and helps clients identify immediate coping steps they can use between sessions.
Her work emphasizes healing from trauma and abuse. She helps people process painful memories and reduce their impact on daily life. She also supports those dealing with grief, anger, intimacy concerns, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Lorene often guides clients through communication problems and codependency, helping them set clearer boundaries and rebuild trust in themselves. She also addresses life-purpose questions and self-love, encouraging small, manageable changes that add up over time.
With a focus on aging and geriatric issues, she brings experience working with concerns that come later in life, and she has a background in veteran and armed forces issues and post-traumatic stress. Her approach blends active problem-solving with a client-centered stance that honors each person’s goals.
Sessions are structured but flexible, aiming for practical tools such as thought reframing, short-term goal setting, and trauma-focused techniques when needed. Lorene draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused methods, and Trauma-Focused practices to create a plan that fits each client’s situation. She practices in Alabama and conducts sessions in English.
Lorene seeks to help people find steady progress and clearer direction through thoughtful, experience-based care.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the person shape goals and steps that feel right for them. This approach is often used with people who want a supportive, collaborative space to make life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it teaches tools people can use between sessions to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust the plan as needed. This is a collaborative process where client preferences guide which methods are emphasized.
Online therapy offers options that fit different schedules and needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support and flexible communication between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English