Lorinda Wente, LCPC

Lorinda Wente is a Kansas licensed counselor (LCPC) with 30 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship problems. She also supports people handling parenting strain, career shifts, grief, compassion fatigue, intimacy concerns, and LGBT issues. Her work includes attention to veteran and armed forces issues and women's health concerns.

Her style is personable and interactive. She talks with people without using stigmatizing labels and aims to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity. Sessions focus on clear conversation, practical steps, and slowing down big problems into manageable parts.

Lorinda draws on several approaches to shape treatment. She uses client-centered ideas to listen deeply and build collaboration. Cognitive behavioral ideas help identify unhelpful thoughts and try out different behaviors. Dialectical behavior strategies provide tools for emotion regulation when feelings feel overwhelming.

She also integrates emotionally-focused and mindfulness practices when they fit the person’s needs. That can mean focusing on relationship patterns or teaching simple attention skills to lower stress. Treatment plans are adapted to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.

People who reach out can expect straightforward conversation about goals, concrete skills to practice between sessions, and adjustments over time based on what does and does not help. Lorinda aims to make therapy usable for everyday life and real problems.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and building a collaborative relationship. Online work can use this approach to help people feel heard and to set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and tries practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns. That method translates well to remote sessions where homework and behavior changes are reviewed and adjusted together. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be taught in straightforward steps and practiced between sessions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative decision means techniques may shift over time as progress and challenges become clearer.

The original biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm current session options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find that remote sessions let them practice skills in real-world routines and follow up on homework between meetings.