Lori Ann Perretta is a Psychologist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Adoption, Behavioral Issues, Borderline Personality, Divorce, Emotional Disturbance, Narcissistic Personality, Peer Relationships, Relationship Issues, School Issues, and Stress. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
My experience includes work with children, adolescents, and adults. While I embrace a psychodynamic approach, I also use cognitive-behavioral practices, mindfulness, relaxation training, and play therapy, as clinically appropriate. I work with my clients to examine their life, build coping skills, heal emotionally, and deepen their relationships with themselves and others. I am especially experienced in assisting with grief, depression, anxiety, PTSD, adjustment disorders, transitional and behavioral difficulties, and relationship difficulties. I honor the privilege of being part of one’s healing journey and life story. The psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott stated: “It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.” I work with clients to find this creativity and self discovery in a space where they feel deeply heard. Regardless of t