About Maria
Maria “Patti” Lorenzo is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people shift negative self-talk and build a kinder relationship with themselves. Patti offers a direct, supportive style that emphasizes practical steps people can use each day.
Many who come to her feel overwhelmed by anxiety, overthinking, or chronic self-criticism. Others report emotional exhaustion, people-pleasing, or feeling stuck in patterns that no longer serve them.
Background and approach
She also works with concerns such as grief, depression, bipolar challenges, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Her sessions aim to build awareness and identify routines that keep people trapped in old responses. Then she helps clients practice new ways of thinking and responding that fit their goals.
Patti frames therapy as a collaborative process where clients lead the pace and focus. Patti often supports women navigating life transitions, burnout, identity shifts, menopause-related emotions, and relationship stress. In those moments she blends practical coaching with therapeutic reflection to help people regain balance and confidence.
Clients can expect warmth, honesty, and gentle accountability. Conversations tend to be straightforward and focused on change that can be noticed in daily life. Patti’s goal is to help clients understand themselves better and take steady steps toward emotional growth.
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them, then choose actions that match their values; it’s useful for anxiety, avoidance, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful thinking and responses; it’s often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns from early relationships and how they shape current connections, which can help with intimacy issues and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Patti will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques. The therapist and client collaborate to try methods and adjust the plan until it fits the person’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief coaching, tracking progress between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options offer scheduling flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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