About Lorraine
Lorraine Helferich is a Maryland-based counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, addiction, and other life challenges. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). Lorraine aims to create a respectful, calm space where clients can talk about what feels hard and begin to make practical changes.
Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set clear, realistic goals. Sessions mix conversation with hands-on techniques people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Lorraine uses approaches that emphasize relationships and present-day coping. She draws from attachment-based work to look at how early connections shape current patterns. Cognitive behavioral tools are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Mindfulness skills and some dialectical behavior therapy techniques are woven into sessions to help with emotion regulation and distress tolerance. These methods support people facing grief, parenting strain, career stress, or challenges tied to trauma and abuse. With six years of post-qualification experience, Lorraine brings both practical methods and steady support.
She works with concerns such as bipolar mood difficulties, compassion fatigue, communication problems, and a broad range of relationship and identity matters. Her goal is to help people build coping skills they can use in daily life.
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. Online sessions can be used to notice recurring relationship habits and practice new ways of relating with real-time feedback from the therapist. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress. In remote sessions clients learn practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors between meetings. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lorraine will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan together based on what feels useful. Clients and the therapist decide which methods to emphasize as skills build. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy schedules and to keep momentum as skills are practiced outside sessions.Questions people ask
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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