About Orlee
Orlee Tugend-Raymond is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Hebrew and can support clients who want a clinician familiar with Jewish cultural background. Her approach is warm, direct, and focused on practical steps to feel better.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change harmful thinking patterns. She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address connection and intimacy concerns.
How Orlee works
Mindfulness and Solution-Focused techniques are used when people want concrete tools and shorter-term strategies. Common concerns she helps people address include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and blended family challenges, caregiver stress, grief, and career transitions.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, abandonment, body image, aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, divorce and separation, and forgiveness work. Her style is interactive and compassionate. Sessions typically involve listening, feedback, and practical exercises you can try between meetings.
She aims to design a treatment plan that matches each person's goals and life situation. Orlee emphasizes respect and sensitivity and avoids stigmatizing labels. For many people she blends short-term, solution-focused work with deeper emotional processing depending on need.
She encourages taking a first step and offers support to people ready to make changes.
Orlee lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Orlee works with
The areas below are the ones Orlee 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English, Hebrew |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Orlee commonly blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name emotions and improve connection in close relationships or intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then choose strategies that fit those needs. This collaborative process can include short-term solution-focused work or slower emotional processing depending on what the client wants.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises that resemble in-person work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people get support between meetings or communicate when typing fits their schedule. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into a busy life.
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