About Dorie
Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Missouri with 33 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting struggles, grief, and stress. Her style is direct and practical, aimed at helping people make workable changes in daily life.
She often blends family systems thinking with tools from narrative approaches and cognitive behavioral therapy. That mix helps people see how patterns started and what to change now.
Background and approach
Sessions look at thoughts, stories, and interactions that keep problems going. Dorie has long experience helping people with parenting, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and fatherhood questions. She also supports people facing career shifts, fertility and divorce challenges, and struggles with self-esteem and body image.
Her background includes work with trauma and abuse and related coping needs. With children and teens she uses play-oriented and behavior-focused techniques alongside talk therapy. For adults she draws on attachment-based ideas to address intimacy and commitment worries, and on narrative work to reframe difficult life chapters.
She encourages practical steps clients can try between sessions. Her approach is collaborative and growth-focused. She aims to challenge people gently toward their goals while offering clear tools for managing anxiety, anger, grief, and life transition.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through online formats to fit different schedules.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Dorie commonly uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques in her online work. Attachment-based approaches look at how early connection patterns shape current relationships and help people change reactions that hurt intimacy. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and stress.She connects these methods to a person's goals during the first sessions and adjusts the plan as work progresses. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist and client decide together which methods fit best given the issues, goals, and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues for relationship work, while phone appointments can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can be used for brief coaching, homework check-ins, or when a shorter, text-based touchpoint fits someone's schedule. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into busy family and work routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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