About Lorraine
Lorraine Landau is a licensed professional counselor with three decades of experience in New York. She uses a straightforward, solution-focused style to help people make practical changes in daily life. Lorraine speaks English, Spanish, French, and Hebrew and works by phone, video, chat, or text.
She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, sleep or eating struggles, and ADHD. Conversations are focused on small, doable steps that reduce overwhelm and improve routine.
Background and approach
Lorraine listens for what is already working and builds on those strengths. Her past work includes supporting people coping with chronic illness, cancer, chronic pain, and aging-related concerns. She also addresses relationship communication, control issues, substance concerns, and life transitions like divorce or separation.
These topics often come alongside mood or behavioral challenges, and she treats them together rather than in isolation. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented. Lorraine and the client set short-term goals and check progress regularly.
The aim is to leave each meeting with one or two clear actions to try before the next session. <br
Solution-Focused Care Online and Flexible Session Options
Solution-Focused Therapy centers on identifying small, realistic changes that lead to measurable improvement. It emphasizes strengths and concrete steps rather than long histories, which can help with stress, anxiety, sleep or eating problems, and daily challenges like managing attention and routines.In practice Lorraine guides clients to set short-term goals and to test small strategies between sessions. Progress is reviewed regularly so plans can be adjusted quickly. This collaborative approach helps people see what works and keeps therapy focused on useful outcomes.
Choosing the right method is part of the work together. Lorraine will discuss goals, personal preferences, and life demands to decide whether solution-focused techniques will be best or whether adjustments are needed. The plan is made jointly and revisited over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can support brief check-ins, and messaging lets people send updates or questions between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity across changes in location or daily routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, Hebrew
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