About me
Seasoned and clinically licensed social work practitioner with demonstrated track record of successfully working with diverse client populations including families, individuals, and couples who are facing challenging situations. With nearly twenty years of experience as a social worker in a variety of clinical settings including community mental health, special education, and the United States Army. Extensive experience with completing comprehensive psychosocial assessments, special needs populations, challenging behaviors, depression, anxiety, parenting and family crisis, post traumatic stress disorder, and severe and persistent mental illness.
Expertise in collaboratively supporting clients toward goal oriented treatment outcomes; helping clients put their thoughts and feelings into words, without the fear of criticism or judgement. Guiding clients to a better understanding and possibly a different perspective of their life circumstances. Life can be challenging, everyday stress such as relationship issues, job stress, and time management conflicts can become overwhelming and impact living a fulfilled life. Consistent counseling, healthy relationships, stress management, avoiding toxic relationships, and compassion are integral in developing different patterns of behavior and belief structures that impact skills needed to change current experiences of depression, anxiety, and conflict.
Demonstrated expertise in collaboratively supporting and training building-based teams to develop and implement individualized data based programs for students with disabilities including challenging behaviors and mental health concerns. A university based guest speaker and presenter for ongoing community training and school district professional learning communities, Crisis Prevention Institute trainer, and Youth Mental Health First Aid Trainer.
Cathy's passions include her family, travel, and veteran's causes. She is an active mother to four very active children ranging from 11 to 18; she is personally familiar with life's challenges through milestones that impact families, parents, and children.
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationships
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Addictions , Trauma and abuse , Eating disorders , Sleeping disorders , Anger management , Self esteem , Career difficulties , Bipolar disorder , Depression
Services offered
Messaging
Live Chat
Phone
Video
Licensing
MO LCSW 2019035021
KS LSCSW 2338
Reviews
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Catherine Lorino. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Teen Counseling might be different.
Pleasantly surprised at how much Catherine knows about Mental Health challenges that my partner face and can provide the right guidance
Catherine Lorino is a caring, thoughtful therapist who makes me feel “seen.” She has helped me find several strategies for dealing with my issues and helps me stick to my plans. I highly recommend her as a therapist.
Catherine is kind, caring and easy to talk to. She is a great therapist. Thank you Catherine!
We are very happy. Catherine is very help full
Catherine has been very helpful for me. She listens, she gently points out aspects of my situation that I haven't considered, and she makes suggestions for ways I can improve relationships. I feel very lucky to have her help on this journey.
Catherine Lorino has really helped my husband and I to come out of some of our darkest times together. We’ve come back to her on and off over the years and continue to use tools she’s taught us everyday to grow towards one another in love and life.
She’s great
I am going through a messy and painful divorce and Catherine has been incredible. She listens to what I’m saying, provides great insight and suggestions as to how to best deal with situations. I would recommend her to anyone dealing with relationship issues.
Thank you for always being kind, patient, understand, available and professional.
She is a great therapist I highly recommend her
I have felt extremely heard during my first two sessions and already have a variety of tools and techniques to help me. I have no doubt that Catherine is listening and practicing in an evidence-based and compassionate way.
Cathy has been a fantastic resource for me! She has taken the time to really get to know me and can pick up on subtle changes in my behavior even before I do! She's become someone I trust and feel confident I can rely on for advice without judgement.
Catherine was amazing to work with. Thanks to her our relationship is truly blossoming again!
She’s fabulous and tells me the truth!
Catherine is a great and empathetic therapist. She really listens and helps direct unhelpful, unproductive thinking to helpful thoughts and practical actions. Highly recommend
Catherine is very easy to talk to and makes our sessions comfortable and open.
She has been very easy to talk to!
She is outstanding
The little time we spent on sessions were very helpful and changed a lot my perspective on situations
teencounseling.com and counseling with Cathy has absolutely changed my life.
Cathy seems to really understand what I am going through and is supportive of how I want to handle things. She is patient in regard to my time management struggles with homework and she has helped me explore multiple views on difficult topics like the ending of a long term relationship and the initial struggle to keep that relationship intact. Cathy is a great listener and offers insightful feedback.
Catherine is very smart and nice specialist. I enjoy the practice with her and can see the results!
Cathy is great with navigating relationships. She has helped me a lot in the past few months.
I had never seen a counselor until I got on teen counseling and was paired with Catherine. I let her know that I was new at this and wasn't sure how to begin or to open up. She made me feel very comfortable and she has been very easy to talk to. I look forward to continuing my counseling with her.
Cathy has done a great job of building rapport and getting to know my partner and myself and what our specific concerns are in our relationship. We are both really happy with our experience and feel like we are on a path to making positive changes in our relationship.
Catherine is very understanding in flexible. I had missed our first meeting, but she promptly scheduled an earlier date that was available to make sure I was okay and we had our first face to face to better get to know each other. She's been working with me with a combination of work sheets, messages, and calls to create a plan for steps forward.
My purpose for finding an counselor has come from finding someone with expertise in my medical condition and it’s affect on my life/marriage/career. Catherine has been on point so far about how what I experienced physically plays into what I go through mentally/relationally. I’d like this review to have come later than now so I have more to say, to this point she has been exactly what I had hoped to find.
Cathy is knowledgeable and resourceful. She has helped me learn various DBT and CBT techniques. She is an empathy listener. She challenges me to think through my feelings and situations. She gives me insight and different perspectives to challenge my thoughts. She encourages me to speak up for myself. She has help me eek additional help and services when needed. She is trustworthy. She is consistent.
I have never had an experience of therapy sessions in my life and this was the first, and I can say that all the fear I had before are gone in the first session we had, Cathy is very kind and respectful person, she always knows the right words to say and knows how to make me feel more aware of myself, I have been taught a lot of important concepts about myself during the sessions. I’m so happy to go through this experience and I’ll never regret it.
Thanks Cathy for the support and everything.
Cathy is very understanding and easy to connect to. She has been very helpful to me.
Cathy is wonderful! She listens to my concerns and offers great feedback. During our sessions she always checks in if I have any other concerns besides what we’ve talked about. I always come out of a session feeling heard, and that’s really important.
Catherine is insightful and helpful. She responds to messages timely and offers practical advice that works!
She's very kind and welcoming. Good counselor for grief.
Cathy has been wonderful for me and my husband. We were in a bad place and she saved our marriage. Luckily, my husband connected with her and was able to take her advice. She also was a huge support for me, not sure how I could have gotten through those rough times without her.
I love Catherine. She is always willing to listen and understand as well as challenge me to see other points of view. I enjoy having her beside me on life’s journey to bounce ideas off of, to challenge my limits, and to make me communicate in a way that’s hard for me. She’s the best.
Catherine has been exceptional. I always learn so much about myself. She has really helped me so much! I would highly recommend her!
Very understanding and compassionate.
She is caring and very helpful.
Ms. Cathy was a great counselor. She goes in depth about how to fix situations you have trouble with.
She is very friendly and is very good at replying. She made me feel comfortable sharing. 11/10 would recommend.
Cathy is so kind and easy to talk to. She has broke the barrier with my husband who does not like to talk to counselors. We have a long road ahead of us but I’m grateful for her help.
She is penomenal and sticks by my sides and gives me the hard truth and helps me fight through.
Catherine is a very insightful therapist who takes time to truly dissect your issues and provide thoughtful advice that is easy to understand. I always feel validated, and she really has a way of opening my eyes to the things that are keeping me from being my best self. She has navigated me through very difficult, complex issues in my life and I am grateful for her sound advice and compassionate spirit.
Catherine Lorino puts my mind at ease. Because, it was clear she is very competent & experienced. She is a great help, very considerate and listens to my concerns and addresses them. I feel safe and confident in her care. She is professional and thorough, I feel she understands my problems.
Catherine has been wonderful to work with! She helped me cope with a recent relationship crisis by encouraging me and helping me to gain perspective. She is a great listener and I especially liked her summaries at the end of each session with ideas of what to work on that week. I learned a lot from her and I am so grateful for this online resource.
Catherine is an extremely skilled counselor. She has given me the tools and support I needed in order to significantly decrease my anxiety. I love talking to her every week. It helps me put words on events I live in my day-to-day life.
Catherine has been a dream to work with! She has helped my spouse and I get to the root of and give a solid foundation to fix issues that had come up in our relationship in a week, where as it would have taken months had we chose to go somewhere in office. Not to mention she is quick to respond and never makes you feel like she is taking sides. She is able to remain very neutral even when you may not. I’d gladly recommend her to anyone!
Counseling is new to me. Working with Catherine Lorino has been a wonderful first experience so far. Sometimes I am slow to write back. She always sends supportive communication in the mean time. I appreciate how professional she is as well.
Up to here she has been excellent and has helped me and supported me a lot.
Catherine Lorino is certainly very understanding and a nice person as well as being a professional that helps you in many ways as much as she can. She certainly made a difference with me. Thank you.
Catherine has been helpful, sensitive and extremely accurate in assessing my concerns and worries. I would highly recommend her if you need help.
Catherine has asked many good questions to get to know me and my situation. She listens and offers supportive responses and suggestions on how to approach things. She is very comforting to talk to. I am happy working with Catherine and I feel working with her will get me over this road block I have in my life.
Cathy is engaging and really on-point with understanding my concerns and my issues. However, unlike other counselors, she offers genuinely effective thoughts and processes to overcome my issues. I'm really happy to stumble upon teencounseling.com.
Catherine has been wonderful and attentive. I appreciate the quick responses and I really feel like she cares. I was pretty apprehensive of the online counseling thing, but it has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. I would recommend Catherine and teencounseling.com to anyone and in fact I have already mentioned it to several friends.
I have been very blessed with the help I've received from Catherine so far! She has already given me new hope...even though my life is still very complicated and depressing at times.
teencounseling.com and Catherine have been a good option for mental health help.
So far, she has been very helpful. She is easy to understand and her tips have been easy to do and follow. I am already seeing a change within me. She has help me a lot to understand and feel my emotions where I use to stuff them. I would recommend her.
I came to teencounseling.com because I was in very low point and severely depressed and angry. I was matched up with Catherine, and we began to communicate and right away she started giving me tools to identify my issues, and how to deal with them in a constructive and nondestructive way. I thank God for her help, and would truly recommend her to to anyone needing help dealing with life's problems!!
Catherine's responses are always intentional and focus on the goals that we have created for our sessions! She is extremely thoughtful and I'm amazed by how much she can pull from our brief interactions. I've learned practical and enjoyable coping techniques to last a lifetime.