About Lorena
Lorena Drakes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage trauma, parenting stress, bipolar-related concerns, and family challenges. She writes plainly and focuses on practical changes clients can use in daily life. Her style aims to make overwhelming feelings more understandable and easier to live with.
She works with trauma and serious mental health struggles, paying attention to how the body holds those experiences. That means sessions include noticing physical reactions alongside thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Somatic Experiencing is part of how she helps people reduce the intensity of traumatic memories in everyday moments. Lorena is also interested in supporting people who were identified as gifted or highly intelligent. She helps them make sense of feeling out of step with peers and workplaces, and she offers tools to navigate social and occupational fit.
Practical problem-solving and coaching-style support are available alongside trauma work. Her practice includes attention to postpartum concerns, chronic illness and pain, dissociation, and personality-related struggles. She addresses money and control issues, multicultural questions, and men's and women's issues with a direct, pragmatic approach.
Sessions aim to connect daily life changes with therapeutic progress. With eight years of experience and practice in Texas, Lorena blends body-aware techniques and talk therapy. She invites people who want clear strategies and steady support to explore what feels most helpful for them.
How somatic work and practical therapy fit into online care
Somatic-focused methods help people notice how stress and trauma show up in their bodies. This approach involves gentle tracking of sensations and small, step-by-step exercises to reduce the charge of traumatic memories. It can help with post-traumatic stress, dissociation, and bodily symptoms tied to past events.Practical coaching and problem-focused therapy emphasize concrete skills and life changes. That work breaks big problems into manageable steps, builds routines, and teaches coping strategies for parenting, managing mood shifts, or handling workplace fit. These techniques aim to create clearer day-to-day shifts in behavior and function.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first based on goals and what feels doable. The plan can change as progress is made and different challenges arise.
The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available session types before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. They can also let people work from a calm spot of their choosing and use audio-only options when video is not practical.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English