About Dori
Dori Lyon is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oregon with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults who are dealing with anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel manageable and practical for everyday life.
She helps people untangle worries that get in the way of daily functioning. That includes social anxiety, isolation, and obsessive-compulsive patterns.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing grief, compassion fatigue, or struggles with self-esteem and life purpose. Dori uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s situation. Sessions emphasize clear communication skills, coping strategies for stress and panic, and steps to rebuild trust after infidelity or betrayal.
Work on grief, trauma, and abuse focuses on pacing and emotional safety so people can process hard memories without feeling overwhelmed. Her practice is inclusive of diverse relationship styles, and she offers help for intimacy-related issues and polyamory or non-monogamous relationship concerns. She also addresses complex patterns like hoarding, paranoia, and personality-related difficulties using practical, measurable steps.
Dori aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can practice self-compassion and try new behaviors. She encourages small, achievable changes and follows progress over time. Therapy is presented as a collaborative process, with goals set together and adjusted as needed.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many people find skills-based work helpful for anxiety and stress. One common technique taught in sessions is structured skills training that focuses on slowing worry cycles, managing physical symptoms, and building tolerance for uncomfortable feelings. This kind of work is useful for social anxiety, panic, and generalized worry.Another practical focus is behavior-based exposure and response practice for obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. These steps guide people to face feared situations in gradual ways and reduce avoidance over time. This approach helps with obsessions, compulsions, and social fears by breaking problems into manageable tasks.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan together as progress is tracked. Clients are involved in deciding which techniques feel useful and realistic for their lives.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, skill practice, and quick feedback between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible around work, caregiving, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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