Lorraine Helferich, MD, LCPC
Licensed in Maryland · 6 years in practice
Lorraine Helferich is a practical, compassionate counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and major life changes.
License and registration
- LCPC, Maryland
- LC9159 · expires January 2028
- NPI
- 1043851629 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English
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About Lorraine
Lorraine Helferich is a practical, compassionate counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and major life changes. She brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and works with adults on relationship concerns, self‑esteem, career strain, and coping after trauma.
Lorraine holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland, and she has six years as an LCPC alongside longer clinical experience in mental health settings.
Background and approach
She focuses on what people can do next. In therapy she listens closely, helps people name their struggles, and coaches simple strategies to manage strong feelings. Sessions mix skills practice with space to talk about painful experiences.
Lorraine uses practical tools and steady support so people can try new ways of coping between sessions. Her approach draws on attachment principles to look at how relationships shape emotions and behavior. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and dialectical behavior strategies to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness and client‑centered elements keep the work grounded in the person’s own goals. Lorraine has worked across crisis and mental health settings and has experience with bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, and complex co‑occurring concerns. She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, aging issues, communication problems, and nontraditional relationship topics such as BDSM and kink when those come up.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered to people in Maryland. Lorraine aims to collaborate on clear, attainable goals and to help each person find routines and skills that fit their daily life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lorraine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lorraine names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment‑based work looks at how past and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can use this approach to map patterns, practice new ways of relating, and reduce triggers that cause distress. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In video or chat sessions this becomes a step‑by‑step process of identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying different behaviors between sessions to see what changes.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lorraine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting plans so skills feel useful in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to get support: video calls for a face‑to‑face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth or screen time is limited, live chat for brief check‑ins, and text messaging for ongoing reminders and exercises. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments while still practicing the same skills and strategies used in traditional sessions.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Lorraine help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, self‑esteem, coping with life changes, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is compassionate and engaging. Sessions combine listening with practical skills practice and collaborative goal setting.
What kind of experience does she have?
She has six years as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and longer experience in mental health settings supporting people in crisis and through transitions.
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
She practices in Maryland and holds an MD and the Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the country work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She meets via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text‑based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and starting steps handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangement and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session.
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