Lorinda Wente, LCPC

Approaches that translate well to online care

Client-centered work emphasizes the client's own goals and viewpoints, with the therapist following the person's lead to build understanding and choice. This helps when someone wants a respectful space to talk through parenting stress, relationship worries, or feelings of burnout.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, and patterns that get in the way of day-to-day functioning by giving clear tools and homework between sessions.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. These skills can be useful for managing intense feelings, anger, or repeated cycles of conflict.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That ongoing process helps find what feels most helpful rather than sticking to one single method.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.