Catherine Lorino

Catherine Lorino is a seasoned, clinically licensed social work practitioner based in Kansas with 30 years of professional experience. She has worked with a wide range of clients including families, individuals, and couples who are navigating difficult life circumstances.

Her career includes extensive time in community mental health, special education, and service with the United States Army. Over the years she has completed comprehensive psychosocial assessments and worked with special needs populations, challenging behaviors, depression, anxiety, parenting and family crises, post traumatic stress disorder, and severe and persistent mental illness.

She takes a collaborative, goal-oriented approach that helps people put thoughts and feelings into words without fear of criticism or judgment. Catherine guides clients toward clearer understanding and, when appropriate, different perspectives on their life circumstances. She emphasizes consistent counseling, healthier relationships, stress management, and compassionate support as ways to develop new patterns of behavior and beliefs that can improve experiences with depression, anxiety, and interpersonal conflict.

Catherine also has demonstrated skill in training and supporting building-based teams to design and implement individualized, data-based programs for students with disabilities, including those with challenging behaviors and mental health needs. She serves as a university guest speaker and presenter for community training and school district professional learning communities, and she is a Crisis Prevention Institute trainer as well as a Youth Mental Health First Aid Trainer.

She is licensed to practice clinical social work in both Missouri and Kansas, and she brings clinical training and years of practical experience to her therapeutic work.

Outside of her professional life, Catherine’s passions include her family, travel, and veterans' causes. She is an active mother of four children, ages 11 to 18, and draws on her personal experience with family milestones and parenting challenges in her work with clients.