About Lorraine
Lorraine Landau is a licensed professional counselor and licensed mental health counselor based in New York with 30 years of practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and ADHD. Lorraine meets clients where they are and focuses on straightforward, practical steps to reduce daily struggle.
She uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help people set clear goals and build small habits that lead to change. Sessions are often brief and goal-directed, with an emphasis on what is working now and how to do more of it.
Background and approach
Lorraine explains ideas in plain language and helps people try manageable actions between visits. Her background includes decades of clinical work across a wide range of concerns, including chronic pain and illness, cancer-related issues, body image, and addiction. She also supports people dealing with aging and geriatric issues, communication problems, control struggles, and life transitions such as divorce and separation.
Lorraine speaks English, Spanish, French, and Hebrew, so she can hold sessions in any of those languages. She sees international clients and adapts session style to each person's needs, whether the focus is symptom relief or longer-term coping skills. Appointments can be held by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Lorraine emphasizes practical strategies, steady progress, and collaboration so people leave sessions with clear next steps.
Solution-Focused approaches for online care
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, practical steps that lead toward a clear goal. In brief, the therapist asks what people want to see change and helps identify strengths and actions that move them forward. This approach works well for stress, anxiety, sleep or eating concerns, and situations where concrete habits can make daily life easier.Lorraine will collaborate with each person to find the approach that fits best. She discusses goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. Together they decide whether to focus on short-term problem solving or build longer-term coping skills and adjust the plan over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets the therapist and client use face-to-face conversation for teaching and role-play. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when hands-free time is needed. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care while traveling or living abroad.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, Hebrew