About Lorinda
Lorinda Wente is a Kansas-based psychotherapist with more than 30 years of experience helping people cope with common and complex struggles. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, career stress, and trauma or emotional abuse.
Lorinda also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue, body image worries, codependency, and issues tied to veterans and the armed forces. Her style is personable and interactive.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist and client set clear goals together. Lorinda avoids stigmatizing labels and aims to make therapy practical and understandable. She uses a blend of approaches to match each person’s needs, drawing on client-centered work to follow the client's lead and cognitive-behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. Lorinda tailors the pace and focus of sessions to the individual. This can mean learning specific coping skills, practicing new ways of relating, or talking through past hurts to reduce their hold on daily life.
Progress is seen as steady steps rather than quick fixes. Clients can expect clear communication about goals and options. The therapist draws on decades of practice to offer practical tools, active listening, and gentle challenge when needed to help people move toward better functioning and greater emotional balance.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy puts your experience at the center of sessions and focuses on listening, understanding, and meeting you where you are. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through feelings, family history, or relationship concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It uses practical exercises and skill-building to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful habits. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness when strong emotions get in the way.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most and what feels workable in day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, step-by-step skill work, or ongoing support between fuller sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy schedule and make it easier to keep consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English