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Catherine Lorino, LSCSW

Experienced mental health professional

Provides online counseling through BetterHelp

At a glance

Catherine is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional who specializes in affordable online therapy offered through our partner, BetterHelp.

4.5 stars
Clients are very satisfied with Catherine. View 53 reviews
Speaks English
Offers Telehealth visits
Licensed in Kansas and Missouri

Recent reviews

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.

Reviewed August 2024

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.

Reviewed April 2024

More about Catherine

  • 30 years' experience
  • Female
  • LSCSW, LCSW

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 Relationship issues Family conflicts Parenting issues Addictions Trauma and abuse Eating disorders Sleeping disorders Anger management Self esteem Career difficulties Bipolar disorder Depression Autism and Asperger Syndrome Codependency Commitment issues Communication problems Divorce and separation Family of origin issues Family problems First responder issues Guilt and shame Infidelity Isolation / loneliness Life purpose Midlife crisis Veteran and Armed Forces Issues Mood disorders Post-traumatic stress Self-love Social anxiety and phobia Women's issues Young adult issues

Treatment Approaches

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Attachment-Based Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Gottman Method
  • Mindfulness Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Solution-Focused Therapy

Licenses

Catherine Lorino's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1922294545.

  • LSCSW · Kansas · 2338 · Expires October 2025
  • LCSW · Missouri · 2019035021 · Expires September 2026

About online counseling

Affordable.
Pay a low flat fee.
Convenient.
Do it at your own time and at your own pace. Communicate whenever you feel it's needed.
Available now.
There is no waiting list and no calls to make. Simply fill out a short questionnaire and send your first message.

Online counseling allows you to receive care from a mental health practitioner via phone, video chat, or instant messaging. It is convenient for those who may have trouble getting to or would prefer not to have in-person therapy appointments. Starting at $65 per week, online counseling is generally more affordable than in-person counseling. A study by researchers at University of California, Berkeley found that online counseling can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy while being more convenient, affordable, and accessible.

Reviews for Catherine Lorino

All reviews have been submitted by clients after seeing the provider.

Overall rating:

4.5

53 reviews

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Clients mention: Helpful Recommend Great Listens Wonderful Easy Helped Understand Supportive Thoughtful

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.

Reviewed August 2024

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.

Reviewed April 2024

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.

Reviewed November 2023

Thank you for always being kind, patient, understand, available and professional.

Reviewed November 2023

She is a great therapist I highly recommend her

Reviewed August 2023

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.

Reviewed June 2023

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.

Reviewed June 2023

She’s fabulous and tells me the truth!

Reviewed March 2023

Catherine is a great and empathetic therapist. She really listens and helps direct unhelpful, unproductive thinking to helpful thoughts and practical actions. Highly recommend

Reviewed February 2023

Cathy is an incredibly warm, thoughtful and effective therapist. She really listens, notices patterns, and provides essential advice and practical suggestions. I would recommend her to anyone needing help.

Reviewed July 2022

She is outstanding

Reviewed November 2021

Fabulous

Reviewed September 2021

Chattering is always thoughtful and helpful, our work continues to help me grow.

Reviewed April 2021

Awesome

Reviewed February 2021

The little time we spent on sessions were very helpful and changed a lot my perspective on situations

Reviewed January 2021

BetterHelp and counseling with Cathy has absolutely changed my life.

Reviewed December 2020

Catherine takes the time to really listen. She seems to know when people have to vent, and when they want advice. She is compassionate and understanding. I’ve been working with her for a long time now; it’s been wonderful having someone I can consistently talk to who knows me and is there to help.

Reviewed August 2020

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.

Reviewed August 2020

Catherine is very smart and nice specialist. I enjoy the practice with her and can see the results!

Reviewed June 2020

Cathy is great with navigating relationships. She has helped me a lot in the past few months.

Reviewed June 2020

I had never seen a counselor until I got on Better help 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.

Reviewed June 2020

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.

Reviewed May 2020

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.

Reviewed May 2020

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.

Reviewed May 2020

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.

Reviewed May 2020

Cathy is very understanding and easy to connect to. She has been very helpful to me.

Reviewed April 2020

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.

Reviewed April 2020

Catherine is insightful and helpful. She responds to messages timely and offers practical advice that works!

Reviewed February 2020

She's very kind and welcoming. Good counselor for grief.

Reviewed February 2020

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.

Reviewed November 2019

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.

Reviewed September 2019

Very understanding and compassionate.

Reviewed July 2019

Cathy is compassionate and supportive yet able to challenges my views and perspectives. She is resourceful and knowledgeable in various skills. She has different ideas on how to help me obtain my goals. She is encouraging.

Reviewed July 2019

She is caring and very helpful.

Reviewed June 2019

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.

Reviewed June 2019

Cathy has been wonderful! She checks in with me every week between our weekly appointments. She listens to my concerns well, and always makes sure to follow up on things we discussed last week. She’s very encouraging and supportive. She lets me voice my concerns and anxiety and acknowledges it as legitimate feelings that she helps me break down and address. She’s been wonderful!

Reviewed November 2018

She is penomenal and sticks by my sides and gives me the hard truth and helps me fight through.

Reviewed September 2018

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.

Reviewed June 2018

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.

Reviewed May 2018

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.

Reviewed May 2018

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.

Reviewed March 2018

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.

Reviewed December 2017

Up to here she has been excellent and has helped me and supported me a lot.

Reviewed November 2017

Catherine offers a lot of insight about managing stress in practical ways. She listens actively and responds directly to concerns as they are presented. She makes it easy to be honest about who I am and what I'm struggling with and she provides helpful tools for combating anxiety and depression.

Reviewed September 2017

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.

Reviewed September 2017

Catherine has been helpful, sensitive and extremely accurate in assessing my concerns and worries. I would highly recommend her if you need help.

Reviewed July 2017

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.

Reviewed July 2017

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 BetterHelp to anyone and in fact I have already mentioned it to several friends.

Reviewed June 2017

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.

Reviewed June 2017

BetterHelp and Catherine have been a good option for mental health help.

Reviewed May 2017

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.

Reviewed November 2015

I came to BetterHelp 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!!

Reviewed November 2015

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.

Reviewed September 2015

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Frequently asked questions

Does Catherine Lorino offer telehealth visits?

Yes. Catherine Lorino works with clients by exchanging messages, chatting live, speaking over the phone, or video conferencing based on what works for the client at that particular time.

What language(s) does Catherine Lorino speak?

Catherine Lorino speaks English.

How many years of experience does Catherine Lorino have?

Catherine Lorino has 30 years of experience.

Where is Catherine Lorino licensed to practice?

Catherine Lorino is licensed to practice in Kansas and Missouri.

Does Catherine Lorino accept clients outside of the United States?

Yes, Catherine Lorino accepts clients outside of the United States.

Is online therapy as effective as in-person therapy?

Numerous studies support the effectiveness of online platforms in facilitating life changes. For instance, research published by JMIR Publications, conducted by teams from the University of Berkeley, UCSF, and SF General Hospital, found that "users of BetterHelp experienced significantly reduced depression symptom severity after engaging with the platform."

What treatment approaches does Catherine Lorino offer?

Catherine Lorino offers clients Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Gottman Method, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy.

How can I communicate with Catherine Lorino?

Catherine Lorino can be engaged in any one of four ways: (1) Exchanging messages, (2) chatting live, (3) speaking over the phone, or (4) video conferencing. You can use different ways at different times as you wish, based on your needs, availability, and convenience.

How do I get started with Catherine Lorino?

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