Lorinda Moreno , LMHC

Lorinda Moreno is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Hawaii who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strain, and life changes. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is compassionate and centered on the person's own goals. Lorinda uses client-centered conversations to help people feel heard and understood. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes. Sessions aim to build coping skills, reduce overwhelm, and improve communication. She works with people experiencing family challenges, blended family concerns, divorce and separation issues, and attachment or abandonment worries. Lorinda also supports those navigating hospice and end-of-life concerns, intellectual disability, and isolation or loneliness. Autism and Asperger Syndrome are listed among her focus areas. Her practice includes support around parenting and parent training skills in the home and community. She helps people manage guilt, shame, forgiveness, and finding life purpose after major transitions. Practical tools and clear next steps are emphasized in sessions. With three years of clinical experience, Lorinda brings a gentle, steady approach to difficult moments. She offers sessions in English and sees clients located in Hawaii. The first step is a short matching questionnaire to connect with her and schedule based on availability.

How her approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters most to the client. In practice this means the therapist follows the client’s pace, asks questions to clarify values and goals, and helps people make decisions that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It involves identifying patterns that cause distress and testing small changes to thoughts or behaviors to reduce anxiety or improve mood. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lorinda will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person’s needs. That collaborative process helps shape whether to use more client-centered listening, CBT exercises, or a mix of both. Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues for communication, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions, or a way to keep momentum when scheduling is tight. These formats make it possible to work on parenting skills, anxiety management, grief processing, and communication exercises from different locations and at times that fit daily routines.