Lori Centineo, LCSW

Lori Centineo, LCSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and jealousy. She works with clients who are dealing with trauma, parenting challenges, addictions, mood concerns, and big life changes. Lori writes plainly and listens first to understand what matters to each person.

She brings a warm, friendly tone to sessions and treats therapy as a team effort. Clients lead the conversation while she offers tools and gentle guidance. Her background as an elementary school teacher informs a practical, patient way of explaining ideas and building skills.

Lori uses Client-Centered methods to follow what each person needs. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone is weighing change or needs help finding motivation.

Her experience includes work in outpatient settings over ten years, where she saw adults, children, families, and couples for mood concerns, trauma, grief, and relationship issues. She earned a Master of Social Work at The University at Albany and holds a New York LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Sessions aim to be practical and focused on everyday life. Lori helps people build skills for managing anxiety, coping with loss, improving communication, and handling jealousy or intimacy-related stress. She encourages small steps and checks progress as goals evolve.

How these approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist creates space for people to tell their story, identify priorities, and set the pace. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and a clear partner in figuring things out.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Lori uses practical exercises and experiments to help people test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lori collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She may combine methods and adjust the plan as progress is made, checking in regularly to refine what helps most.

Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking, since specific online formats are not listed in the biography. Many people find online work helpful because it can fit into a busy week, shorten travel time, and make follow-up exercises easier to do between appointments. Different approaches can be adapted to suit shorter check-ins, deeper weekly sessions, or work that involves partners, depending on what the therapist and client agree will work best.