Lorena Borella-Clements , LMFT

Lorena Borella-Clements is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 17 years of clinical experience. She centers her work on helping people move through stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and intimacy-related concerns. Lorena aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly about painful experiences.

She draws from several therapeutic approaches to fit each person’s needs rather than using a single method for everyone. Sessions focus on identifying what feels overwhelming, learning practical coping skills, and experimenting with new ways of thinking and relating. For trauma and abuse, she blends methods that address both the body of memories and the story people tell about them.

Lorena pays attention to attachment, abandonment, and relationship patterns that often show up in adult life. She also supports people dealing with blended family challenges, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and issues around commitment and control. She works with concerns such as guilt, shame, emptiness, and family of origin wounds.

Born in Argentina and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lorena brings a multicultural perspective to therapy. She practices in Oregon and offers services in English. Her training included a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Sofia University.

She does not provide documentation for courts, custody, DHS, or HR matters. Lorena frames therapy as a collaborative journey where small steps and practical tools add up to real change.

Therapeutic approaches for online healing

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening without judgment and helping people notice their own strengths and choices; it is useful for building self-esteem and working through relationship and intimacy concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms. Trauma-Focused Therapy looks directly at the effects of traumatic events and uses targeted techniques to reduce lingering trauma symptoms and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past, then suggest options and try methods collaboratively. That way the plan can change if something isn’t a good fit.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for short updates, and messaging supports ongoing processing between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.