Lorena Borella-Clements, LMFT

Practical, story-focused therapy for healing

About Lorena

Lorena Borella-Clements uses a client-centered approach that puts each person's story first. She draws on practical therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, intimacy issues, and depression.

Background and approach

Lorena brings 17 years of clinical experience and works from Oregon as a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about openly.

Sessions focus on concrete coping skills and on making sense of difficult experiences. People often work on managing symptoms, improving day-to-day functioning, and finding ways to reconnect to what matters.

Lorena blends several approaches to match a client's needs. She uses client-centered techniques to follow a person’s pace, cognitive behavioral methods to challenge unhelpful patterns, and narrative ideas to reframe painful stories.

Trauma-focused work is used when past events continue to cause strong reactions. Her background includes long-term work with issues like abandonment, attachment problems, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and the fallout from domestic violence or separation.

She also supports people coping with grief, shame, guilt, and concerns related to HIV/AIDS. Lorena was born in Argentina and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She trained in counseling psychology and brings a multicultural perspective to sessions. Services are offered in English, and she practices from Oregon as a CA and OR LMFT.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following a person's pace, helping someone feel heard and understood while they name what matters most. This approach is useful for building trust and deciding what to work on first.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear exercises and practice. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives concrete tools to use between sessions.

Narrative Therapy invites people to rewrite the stories they tell about themselves, separating a person from their problems and opening new possibilities for meaning and action. It can be helpful when past events or family-of-origin patterns feel stuck.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods over time in a collaborative way.

Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people hold fuller conversations and read facial cues, while phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to keep brief contact, process thoughts between sessions, or fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns can Lorena help with?

She helps people address stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, and depression. Additional focus areas include attachment, abandonment, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and related concerns.

What is her general therapy style?

Her style is client-centered and practical. Sessions combine listening with hands-on coping skills and techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral and narrative approaches.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Lorena brings 17 years of experience providing psychotherapy. That experience includes work with trauma symptoms, grief, relationship struggles, and long-term mood concerns.

Where is she licensed and located?

She holds LMFT credentials in California and Oregon and practices from Oregon. Licensing is listed as CA LMFT and OR LMFT.

Which languages are supported in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Therapy can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or via text-based messaging. Multiple formats allow flexibility for different needs.

How does billing and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and is managed through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. After that you can schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Specialties and expertise

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Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 17 years
Licensed: California, Oregon
Languages: English