About Dorlea
Dorlea Knizley is a licensed counselor with 11 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, and depression. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for those feeling overwhelmed or stuck. Her approach centers on understanding each person’s story and finding practical steps forward.
She uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on what matters to the person in front of her. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day coping. Dorlea blends mindfulness and existential ideas to help people reconnect with values and purpose. Mindfulness practices are paired with simple exercises to reduce anxiety and increase present-moment calm.
Existential conversation helps when deeper questions about meaning and direction come up. Her background includes licensure as an LPC-MH (Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health) and LCPC (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor), and she provides services to people in South Dakota and Idaho.
She brings a trauma-aware and culturally sensitive stance to sessions and is comfortable addressing grief, post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, and seasonal mood changes. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical tools, and collaboration. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space for working through communication problems, loneliness, substance concerns, anger, and women’s issues.
Dorlea helps people build skills they can use outside of sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person needs in the moment. In practice this means sessions that follow the client's priorities, building trust and helping people clarify goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers hands-on strategies to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. Together they will pick skills and exercises that feel useful and realistic for daily life, whether the focus is on panic attacks, addiction recovery, grief, or improving communication.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and practicing skills together, while phone calls can fit into a busy schedule or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, journaling prompts, homework review, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and work on therapy goals around other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, South Dakota
- Languages
- English
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