About Lorraine
Lorraine Kenowski is a licensed professional counselor in Connecticut with over three decades of practice. She centers her work on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and career setbacks. Lorraine emphasizes each person’s strengths and sees clients as experts in their own story.
She offers steady support for people ready to pursue clearer goals and small, practical changes. Her approach is straightforward and respectful. Sessions focus on concrete skills and real-life steps rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Lorraine uses conversations that help people sort priorities, build confidence, and manage difficult emotions. She pays attention to how stress shows up in daily routines and relationships. Over 32 years she has worked with many common life concerns.
That background informs practical techniques for grief, trauma, compassion fatigue, and major life transitions. Lorraine also helps with intimacy-related issues, parenting pressures, and challenges tied to aging and caregiving. Her work draws on familiar, skill-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices.
Lorraine also uses client-centered conversation and motivational interviewing to clarify what each person wants to change. These tools are used together to fit the needs of each individual. People who do best with her style want clear, usable strategies and a calm, encouraging listener.
Sessions are aimed at making steady progress on problems like low self-esteem, relationship strain, seasonal mood changes, and career uncertainty. Lorraine’s tone is practical, patient, and focused on doable next steps.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and following the client’s lead. It helps people feel heard and clarify what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lorraine will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past. Together they pick methods and adjust them as progress is made, combining skill teaching with supportive conversation to match individual needs.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit counseling into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when interaction matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coping reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options increase flexibility and help people stay consistent with the work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English