About Lorinda
Lorinda Wente, LCPC, helps people facing common and persistent worries like anxiety, phobias, depression, and relationship strain. She brings 30 years of experience as a licensed clinical professional counselor in Kansas. Her manner is warm and direct, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Then she works with them to set clear, doable goals and build skills to manage distress.
Background and approach
Sessions blend conversation with concrete tools so people leave with actions to try. Lorinda uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. That can include cognitive behavioral techniques to change thinking patterns, mindfulness to reduce overwhelm, and emotionally focused work to address relational pain.
She adjusts pacing and methods so the plan fits the person, not the other way around. Her background includes long-term work with trauma and emotional abuse, compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and issues tied to military life. She also helps with body image, obsessive-compulsive concerns, grief, and career transitions.
Her focus includes women's issues and LGBT concerns when relevant to the person she is seeing. People who prefer a straightforward, respectful therapy experience may find her style helpful. She emphasizes collaboration, clear next steps, and steady progress.
Sessions are offered through a variety of online formats to make scheduling easier.
Approaches and online options for practical change
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and empathy so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a safe space to sort through worries and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear strategies and homework exercises to reduce anxiety, compulsions, phobias, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to emphasize skill-building with CBT, use client-centered listening, or combine methods to fit the issue and the person’s pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video lets for a face-to-face feel, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports brief, ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options offer scheduling flexibility and multiple ways to stay connected while working toward goals.
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What this therapist 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
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