Lorena Borella-Clements, LMFT

Lorena Borella-Clements is a licensed marriage and family therapist who draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and narrative approaches. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, intimacy concerns, and depression. Lorena brings 17 years of clinical experience and a calm, direct style to sessions.

She offers a clear, practical approach to difficult feelings. Lorena helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and small patterns that keep problems going. She introduces coping skills and exercises to reduce symptoms and build day-to-day strength.

Her work also attends to relationship and attachment issues like abandonment, communication problems, commitment concerns, and blended family challenges. She supports people dealing with guilt, shame, family of origin wounds, and the effects of domestic violence or separation.

Lorena combines storytelling methods with trauma-focused techniques when past events continue to cause distress. Sessions encourage naming what happened, making sense of its meaning, and testing new ways of responding. The aim is better emotional regulation and clearer choices rather than quick fixes.

She trained in counseling psychology and has a background that includes immigration and multicultural experience. Lorena practices in Oregon as a CA and OR LMFT and offers therapy in English. Court documentation and custody or HR reports are outside her scope of practice.

Practical approaches for online healing

Lorena often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors; CBT focuses on clear, actionable steps that can reduce anxiety and lift mood. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the persons experience, listening without judgment and helping people find their own solutions through supported reflection.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lorena will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and collaborate on a plan that may combine methods. She checks in and adjusts the approach as progress and needs evolve so the work fits the person rather than forcing a single method.

Online therapy with Lorena is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth alternative, live chat helps with short check-ins, and messaging lets someone share in writing or between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while keeping therapy practical and focused.