About Dori
Dori Grace is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana with three years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and everyday struggles like parenting and self‑esteem. Her approach is direct and practical, aimed at making small changes that feel doable.
She creates a calm space where people can say what they are thinking and feeling without judgment. She uses clear, skill‑based work in sessions so people leave with steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Dori often draws on techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help with intense emotions, impulsivity, and improving how people cope. She also supports those dealing with grief, addiction concerns, mood shifts, and life transitions. People who come to her for help with panic attacks, post‑traumatic stress, postpartum changes, or ADHD concerns will find a steady, organized style.
She pays attention to attachment and family patterns when those issues are relevant. Sessions address practical problems like communication, boundaries, and managing anger. Her conversations are straightforward and collaborative.
She helps set goals together and checks in about what is working. If someone needs help sorting through next steps after adoption, foster care, or during pregnancy and childbirth, she brings focused attention to those topics. Sessions are offered in English and are available through online formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text‑based messaging.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client’s needs.
Using DBT skills and online therapy to manage intense emotions
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a skills‑based approach that teaches concrete tools for handling strong emotions, reducing impulsive behavior, and improving interpersonal communication. It emphasizes balancing acceptance of current feelings with active steps to change unhelpful patterns, and it can be useful for panic, emotion dysregulation, and chronic stress.The right approach often becomes clearer through collaboration. The therapist will work with the client to pick techniques that fit their goals and daily life, and will adjust the plan as progress is tracked. Clients and the therapist decide together what skills to try and when to shift focus.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a lower‑bandwidth option for a quick check‑in. Live chat and text‑based messaging are useful for shorter updates, interim coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving routines while still using DBT skills and other practical tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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