About Lorinda
Lorinda Wente is a Kansas-based therapist with over 30 years of clinical experience. She supports people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, grief, and career challenges. She also helps with compassion fatigue, self-esteem, body image, and LGBT-related issues.
Her approach in sessions is warm and direct. She listens closely and tailors conversations to each person’s needs. Sessions are collaborative and practical, with tools you can try between meetings.
How Lorinda works
She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with respect and sensitivity. Lorinda uses a mix of methods that fit the problem at hand. That can mean working on thought patterns, learning emotion regulation skills, or focusing on how relationships affect feelings.
She draws from client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people feel understood and grounded. Over three decades she has worked with people facing life changes, caregiving stress, divorce and separation, family of origin concerns, and military-related issues for veterans and their families. She also has experience addressing obsessive-compulsive symptoms, phobias, seasonal affective disorder, and forgiveness work.
Many people come to her seeking straightforward strategies and a steady therapeutic presence. She meets each person where they are and helps build steps toward clearer coping, healthier relationships, and more balanced daily life.
Lorinda lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Lorinda works with
The areas below are the ones Lorinda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a supportive space where the client leads the conversation. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and make sense of emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills that can be useful for intense emotions and relationship struggles.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time. Together they decide whether to focus on thought work, skills training, or deeper emotional patterns based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy with this practice is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations when visual cues help. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text are useful for short check-ins, quick skill practice, or flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel routines.
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