About Lorraine
Lorraine Luciano is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona who bases her work on a client-centered approach. She draws on 45 years of experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and career challenges. Her style is respectful and direct, with a focus on listening carefully and responding to each person's needs.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also blends skills from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to help people manage intense emotions and stay grounded.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing supports clients who want help with addictions or with finding the drive to make life changes. Sessions are built around the person's goals. Lorraine tailors conversations and exercises to match what feels most useful.
She helps people set clear steps, test new behaviors, and track progress over time. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, intimacy issues, parenting stresses, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She also addresses more specific topics such as attachment questions, abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver strain, chronic illness or pain, and body image.
Lorraine offers multiple ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. English-language sessions are provided from Arizona and international clients are not accepted.
Online approaches that focus on skills and change
Client-centered therapy places the person and their goals at the center of sessions. Lorraine listens closely and shapes the work around what the client wants to change, helping set clear, realistic goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many day-to-day struggles where thought patterns influence mood and action.
Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and better interpersonal interactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through what feels most helpful, try methods in session, and adjust the plan based on progress and preference. Clients help decide which tools to keep using.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for in-depth work and seeing visual cues. Phone meetings can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, focused exchanges or ongoing written support between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 45 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English