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About Maria
Maria "Patti" Lorenzo is an Illinois-licensed clinician (LCPC) with 12 years of experience helping people reshape their inner dialogue and cultivate more compassionate self-care.
Background and approach
She draws on evidence-based methods to address anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, guiding clients toward clearer thinking and more functional emotional responses. Patti frames therapy as a practical, collaborative effort focused on building awareness, identifying unhelpful patterns, and creating sustainable change in daily life.
Her style blends warmth with gentle accountability, offering straightforward tools alongside reflective exploration. Many clients seek her help for stress, grief, intimacy-related concerns, and life changes that leave them feeling stuck or burned out.
Patti also works with issues such as self-esteem, career concerns, communication challenges, and complex co-morbidities, tailoring interventions to each person’s situation. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English, helping people around the world access flexible care from Illinois.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, so they can move toward values-driven action; it is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and skills training, which supports work on depression, anxiety, and stress-related concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relational patterns shape current emotional responses and relationship dynamics, helping people who struggle with intimacy, abandonment fears, or attachment issues.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic collaboration. The therapist works together with each person to assess goals, preferences, and symptom patterns, then tailors methods and tools that fit the client’s needs rather than relying on a single technique.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to attend sessions from different locations or during busy schedules. Licensed professionals can deliver the same core therapeutic work using these formats, allowing clients to integrate skills into daily life and maintain continuity of care while balancing other responsibilities.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does Patti address?
Patti works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, grief, stress, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses related topics like self-esteem, career stress, and chronic illness impacts.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach is supportive and practical, combining warmth with gentle accountability to help clients build awareness and change longstanding patterns. Sessions focus on usable skills and reflective work to create meaningful shifts.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Patti has practiced as a licensed clinician for 12 years, bringing that background to work with complex presentations and chronic concerns. Her experience informs a grounded, adaptable style.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds an Illinois LCPC license with the number IL LCPC 180013018 and practices from Illinois while accepting clients internationally.
Can nonlocal clients work with her in English?
Yes, she conducts therapy in English and is open to working with international clients who can join sessions from other locations.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences and schedules.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies based on location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Exact pricing depends on those factors.
What should I do to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist’s availability. That process begins the match and lets you arrange your first session.
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English