About Lorraine
Lorraine Luciano uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She focuses on building practical coping strategies and clearer thinking. Lorraine is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Arizona for 45 years.
She communicates in plain language and treats each person with respect and compassion. Her work often addresses motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. She also helps people facing addiction and career difficulties.
Sessions are tailored to fit what each person needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
How Lorraine works
Lorraine draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and low mood. She uses mindfulness to help people pause and notice what they are feeling. Dialectical behavior skills are offered when strong emotions or relationship tensions make life harder.
She also brings motivational interviewing when someone needs focused help to make changes, such as reducing substance use or improving work habits. Over decades of practice Lorraine has helped people manage sleep problems, intimacy concerns, and caregiver stress. Beyond those areas she addresses a wide range of related challenges, including attachment issues, body image, chronic illness and codependency.
Her style is collaborative: she listens, reflects, and helps people set realistic goals they can work toward between sessions.
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What Lorraine works with
The areas below are the ones Lorraine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 45 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting each person where they are. Online sessions let Lorraine follow a person's lead, reflect on concerns, and jointly set goals in the moment. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more effective ones; online sessions can include step-by-step skill practice and homework reviews to track progress. Dialectical behavior therapy offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills for people who feel overwhelmed by strong emotions or relationship strain. These skills can be taught and rehearsed during video or phone appointments and reinforced via messaging.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Lorraine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals, needs, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made and needs change.
Online formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent. Video calls let people use visual cues and do skills practice together. Phone sessions can be a simple check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, mood tracking, or brief coaching between sessions. These options support flexible scheduling and steady momentum toward goals.
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