About Maria
Maria "Patti" Lorenzo is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 12 years of experience helping people quiet harsh self-talk and build kinder relationships with themselves. She focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Patti treats anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, stress, and grief with a steady, compassionate approach.
Her work often begins with noticing unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior. She helps clients spot repeated responses like people-pleasing, overthinking, and emotional exhaustion.
How Maria works
From there she and the client pick small, manageable changes to try between sessions. Patti blends evidence-informed methods with a warm, down-to-earth style. Sessions are collaborative - she listens, reflects, and offers tools that fit a person’s life.
Expect clear feedback, gentle accountability, and time spent on what actually changes daily routines and feelings. She has particular experience supporting people through life transitions, burnout, identity shifts, and menopause-related emotional changes. She also addresses intimacy concerns, career strain, ADHD challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Patti works with concerns tied to trauma, attachment, adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and body image issues. Her aim is to help people move from surviving to managing and then to thriving in the ways that matter most to them.
Maria lists 17 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Maria works with
The areas below are the ones Maria selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How these approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and patterns like overthinking. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with depression, anxiety, and managing mood shifts. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and emotional reactions, and it can be helpful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and attachment wounds.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Patti will discuss these methods with each person and pick techniques that match goals, life demands, and comfort level. Together they track what works and adjust strategies over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a less visual check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options aim to make consistent therapy easier to keep up with around work, caregiving, and daily routines.
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