Orlee Tugend-Raymond, LMFT
Supportive LMFT focused on relationships and life changes
About Orlee
Orlee Tugend-Raymond uses a relational, practical approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship struggles. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 25 years of experience.
Background and approach
Orlee speaks English and Hebrew and can support clients who prefer either language. She focuses on everyday problems like parenting strain, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and career shifts.
She also helps with depression, grief, intimacy concerns, body image, and issues around abandonment or adoption and foster care. Her work includes supporting people in the LGBT community and those coping with compassion fatigue.
Orlee’s style is warm and interactive. Sessions involve listening closely, asking practical questions, and building concrete steps clients can try between meetings.
She avoids labelling and aims to treat people with respect and sensitivity. Her approaches include cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, emotionally-focused ideas to improve connection, mindfulness practices to calm the mind, and solution-focused strategies when people want shorter-term work.
Treatment plans are shaped to each person’s needs and goals. Orlee encourages small, achievable changes and guides clients through life transitions.
She welcomes people who want a therapist who listens carefully and helps craft realistic plans for better everyday functioning.
Online approaches that help with everyday challenges
Orlee commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT often focuses on specific thoughts and actions tied to anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem and offers practical exercises to try between sessions.She also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to improve how people relate and connect. EFT-style work helps identify core emotions and change interaction patterns that create distance or conflict in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Orlee works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, preferences, and life circumstances. She adjusts the mix of strategies as progress is made and as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflection and ongoing touchpoints. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hebrew