About Lorraine
Lorraine Stamp is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship or intimacy concerns, grief, and addiction-related challenges. She works with adults who are navigating parenting strain, career changes, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and struggles with self-esteem or anger.
Lorraine brings a calm, straightforward presence and listens first to understand what matters to each person. She blends practical techniques with a respectful, client-centered style.
How Lorraine works
Sessions begin with listening to the story and identifying clear goals. Lorraine uses evidence-informed approaches like cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness practices, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help people develop coping strategies and change patterns that get in the way.
Her background includes long-term clinical work and supervision within a large organization, where she provided therapy to groups and individuals for many years. Lorraine holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Social Work, and she carries the New York LCSW-R credential.
In sessions she focuses on what is useful in the moment, combining acceptance-oriented strategies with practical skill building. People can expect direct, compassionate guidance on communication, boundaries, emotion regulation, and problem solving. Outside of work she enjoys swimming, cooking, and family life as a mother and grandmother.
Lorraine also cares for rescue cats and values connecting with people across cultural and identity differences.
Lorraine lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching ways to notice thoughts without getting stuck in them.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotion patterns. It is useful for people who want to improve closeness, trust, and communication in adult relationships and to understand long-standing connection patterns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practice alternative responses. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, anger, and habits that cause problems in day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and needs and together you will choose methods that fit. That means trying strategies, checking whether they help, and adjusting as you go in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit care into busy lives. Video calls let you see facial cues and work in a conversational way. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is not needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or when writing helps you process thoughts. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and to use therapy tools in everyday moments.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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