Lorraine Helferich
Practical, compassionate help for life and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- MD, LCPC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lorraine
Lorraine Helferich is a licensed clinician who focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and other life changes. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - LCPC. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people talk through immediate problems and find workable steps forward.
She has six years of licensed experience and a longer history in mental health settings.
Background and approach
Lorraine has helped people dealing with mood differences, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, addiction concerns, and parenting questions. She also has experience with issues like compassion fatigue, bipolar concerns, and coping after major losses or changes. Her approach mixes relational work and practical skills.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings. She uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness techniques to build emotional regulation and stress skills.
Sessions are collaborative. Lorraine aims to listen first, then set small goals that fit each person’s situation. Many people find concrete tools and clearer choices develop from this process.
Lorraine practices in Maryland and offers sessions in English. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a parent or individual completes a short questionnaire and schedules a session.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape reactions and security. Online sessions can use this approach to identify patterns in parenting, partnerships, and close relationships so clients can try new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In teletherapy, CBT is used to spot unhelpful thinking, test different behaviors, and practice skills between sessions to reduce anxiety or improve mood.
Finding the right method is part of the work together. Lorraine will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust approaches based on goals, needs, and what feels helpful. That collaboration helps shape a clear plan and small steps the client can try between sessions.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family lives and to keep momentum between appointments. Many people use a mix of formats depending on the topic and what feels most useful at the time.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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