About Lorie
Lorie Mangen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, LGBTQ-related issues, trauma, and attention challenges such as focus and memory struggles. She builds straightforward, nonjudgmental working relationships and helps people find practical ways to feel steadier and more in control.
Lorie presents a calm, encouraging presence for people taking the first step toward change. In sessions she encourages open conversation about thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that get in the way of daily life and helps clients try small, manageable shifts. Work often includes strategies to improve concentration, handle cravings, reduce anxious thinking, and process difficult events. Lorie also addresses communication difficulties, guilt and shame, questions about life purpose, and building self-love.
She uses methods drawn from evidence-based therapeutic techniques to match each person’s needs rather than a single fixed approach. Progress is framed as gradual and practical, with concrete tools to practice between sessions. Her practice is delivered online through video, phone, chat, and text options, which many people find fits into busy schedules.
Sessions are guided by each client’s goals and paced to what feels manageable. Lorie emphasizes partnership - clients set the priorities and she supports the steps to reach them. Located in California, Lorie works in English.
She focuses on steady, doable changes that help people feel more capable in daily life.
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Two common evidence-based approaches she draws on are practical skills training and trauma-focused work. Practical skills training teaches concrete strategies for managing worry, improving focus, and handling cravings; it helps people build routines and habits that ease daily tasks. Trauma-focused work helps people talk through and process difficult events at a pace that feels manageable, reducing the hold those memories have on everyday functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she and the client will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust those methods as progress is made. This keeps sessions collaborative and focused on what the client wants to change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a fuller face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful. Phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option and can work better when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and written reflections that can be revisited later. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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