Lorrie Herzberg, LCSW, LICSW
California · 30 years in practice
Lorrie Herzberg is a clinical social worker with thirty years of experience practicing in Massachusetts and California.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 70721 · expires October 2027
- LICSW, Massachusetts
- LICSW1121652 · expires October 2027
- NPI
- 1154539245 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Lorrie
Lorrie Herzberg is a clinical social worker with thirty years of experience practicing in Massachusetts and California. She brings a steady, grounded presence to sessions and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life changes. Lorrie holds LCSW and LICSW credentials, and she approaches each person with respect and sensitivity.
Clients can expect a conversation-driven process where the therapist listens first and helps shape a plan that fits each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools and a mix of approaches to address symptoms and build coping skills. Sessions are aimed at clear, manageable steps rather than vague goals. Lorrie works with concerns such as depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and career stress.
She also helps with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and challenges tied to aging and cancer. Additional focuses include abandonment, codependency, communication and control issues, and healing family of origin wounds. The clinician incorporates approaches like hypnotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness, client-centered, and psychodynamic methods.
Those tools are selected to match what a person needs and wants to try. Lorrie emphasizes collaboration in deciding which approaches to use. Her style is compassionate and straightforward.
She supports people in finding clearer direction, solving practical problems, and building resilience. The goal is to empower clients to make lasting changes in day-to-day life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lorrie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
Approaches Lorrie names
- Hypnotherapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Lorrie uses hypnotherapy to help people access relaxed states of attention where they can focus on specific goals like reducing anxiety or shifting unhelpful habits. In an online session this can mean guided imagery and focused suggestion while a person is comfortable at home.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for processing traumatic memories and reducing distress tied to those memories. Online EMDR typically involves guided bilateral stimulation paired with talk processing to help lessen the emotional charge of difficult events.
Client-centered therapy is central to her practice; it emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace. Online sessions allow the therapist and client to collaborate on which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how someone responds to early sessions to choose or combine methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can shift over time.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for full sessions that mirror face-to-face work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, between-session notes, and ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Lorrie help with?
She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. There is also focus on relationship and intimacy-related issues, career concerns, and compassion fatigue.
What is Lorrie’s therapeutic style?
Her approach is compassionate and conversational, starting with listening and then building a plan together. She mixes practical coping skills with deeper exploration when helpful.
How much experience does she have?
She has thirty years of experience as a clinical social worker, bringing long-term practice with trauma, grief, chronic illness, and life transitions.
What credentials and region apply?
Lorrie holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices in Massachusetts. The profile also notes licensure in California historically.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and is billed through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Lorrie?
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