Lorri Perez, LCSW

Lorri Perez is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and relationship pain. Her work also addresses trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, and self-esteem struggles.

She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Sessions often include talking through patterns, learning simple skills, and finding small changes that help day-to-day. She pays attention to how family history, attachment, and past hurts shape current reactions.

Lorri uses a mix of approaches to meet each person where they are. That can mean using cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts, client-centered listening to follow what matters most, or motivational strategies to support change. She draws on narrative and solution-focused ideas when stories and quick goals help move someone forward.

Her background includes long experience with caregiver stress, blended family concerns, fatherhood issues, and first responder stress. She also works with people dealing with abandonment, impulsivity, and co-occurring difficulties. That range helps when problems overlap or feel complicated.

Sessions are available through a variety of online formats so people can choose what fits their life. Lorri aims to create a straightforward, warm space where clients can practice new skills, talk about painful events, and make concrete progress on the issues they brought in.

How Lorri’s approaches translate to online care

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical skills to test and shift thinking patterns. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's priorities, creating space for people to name what matters and pace the work to their comfort. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change by exploring ambivalence and building internal motivation.

Choosing the best approach happens together. Lorri will talk with each person about their goals and try different methods until they find what fits. That collaborative process helps tailor work to specific problems like trauma, parenting stress, or relationship concerns.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video allows for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat is useful for focused back-and-forth, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.