Lorette Cristino , LCSW

Lorette Cristino is a New Jersey licensed social worker with 17 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical support for relationship strain, family conflict, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Her approach centers on creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk openly and find clearer ways forward.

Clients can expect straightforward conversation about current problems and small, achievable steps toward change. She helps people name what feels hard, spot unhelpful patterns, and try different ways of coping. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused rather than long lectures.

Her work includes support around abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, and attachment issues. She also assists with blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and communication problems. Practical strategies are offered for body image, codependency, control issues, and coping after divorce or separation.

Lorette has experience addressing trauma-related situations such as domestic violence and drug or alcohol addiction, plus eating and food-related struggles and feelings of emptiness. She frames these issues in everyday terms and helps people build skills to manage symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.

Sessions are conducted in English and delivered using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Lorette supports clients who want steady, workable changes and offers guidance while people make decisions about their next steps.

Practical approaches for online therapy and real life

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to address symptoms and patterns that show up in daily life. One approach focuses on learning coping skills and problem-solving strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress. That work often involves practicing small behavioral changes and testing new responses to difficult situations. Another approach helps people notice and shift unhelpful relationship patterns and attachment concerns by exploring recent and past interactions and trying clearer communication techniques in between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will choose or adapt methods so sessions feel useful and tied to real-world needs rather than abstract theory.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a busy day or save bandwidth, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into work, family life, and other commitments.