About Lorena
Lorena Allen is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She brings 11 years of experience working in court, crisis centers, outpatient substance use programs, and community mental health clinics. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first step as straightforward as possible.
Her work focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship problems. She also helps people cope with major life changes and losses.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be a calm, nonjudgmental place to talk through what feels overwhelming. Allen has worked alongside multidisciplinary teams including court staff, school personnel, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers. That background informs a practical approach to solving problems and coordinating care when needed.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions toward real-life change. In the room, she emphasizes clear communication and coping skills. People learn concrete ways to manage panic, mood shifts, difficult family interactions, and chronic health-related stress.
Treatment plans are shaped around each person's goals and daily life demands. She also spends time on issues such as blended family dynamics, body image, chronic pain and illness, communication breakdowns, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and loneliness. The goal is to build tools that fit into routines and help people move forward step by step.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many of her sessions draw on cognitive behavioral techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT helps people break cycles of worry, panic, or avoidance by practicing new responses and problem-solving steps.Mindfulness-based strategies are used to build moment-to-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. These techniques teach simple attention and breathing practices that can ease anxiety, mood swings, and stress tied to chronic illness or pain.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. She works with each person to match techniques to their goals, daily routines, and what feels doable. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits real life rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer talks and skill-building, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make care more flexible and easier to fit around work, family, and health needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish