About Lorena
Lorena Flores is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger, trauma, or depression.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing major life changes and relationship shifts. Lorena speaks English and Spanish and offers therapy in both languages.
Clients can expect conversations that are respectful and grounded. She adapts the pace and topics to each person.
Together, she and the client shape a plan that fits real life and daily demands. The work is practical and aimed at small, steady steps.
Lorena draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address emotional wounds and the patterns that keep problems going. She helps people understand triggers and practice new ways of coping.
Sessions often include talking through recent events, trying targeted exercises, and checking what is or isn’t working. Her additional focus areas include abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, life purpose, mood concerns, self-love, social anxiety, women’s issues, and workplace struggles.
These topics come up alongside core concerns like anxiety or depression. The approach is collaborative.
Lorena listens first, then suggests options that fit a person’s goals and daily realities. She encourages realistic changes that build confidence over time.
If someone wants to work in English or Spanish, she can switch between both during sessions.
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Lorena uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns and manage strong emotions. One common approach focuses on understanding triggers and responses so people can practice different reactions and reduce reactivity; this helps with anger, anxiety, and mood difficulties. Another approach emphasizes skills for coping with stress and life transitions, including short exercises to calm the body, shift thinking, and improve day-to-day functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will listen to your goals and current struggles, explain a few options, and then try what fits best. That way the plan matches a person’s needs, routine, and preferences rather than being one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls let you have a full conversation and read facial expressions. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when you prefer writing to speaking. These formats make it easier to keep momentum and use therapy when it works for your schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish