About Lois
Dr. Lois Winchell helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly about coping and the next steps.
She aims to make the first appointment feel doable for someone who is worried or unsure. Dr. Winchell practices from a strengths-based view.
She treats concerns such as depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and issues related to identity and relationships. She also supports people dealing with grief, addictions, self-esteem struggles, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her experience includes work with parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, and first responder stress. She brings 23 years of professional experience to sessions and holds the credential CO Psychologist PSY.0001809, which identifies her as a psychologist licensed in Colorado. Her style centers on listening, helping clients name what matters, and building practical steps that fit daily life.
Sessions are geared toward concrete coping skills as well as looking at patterns that keep problems stuck. People who prefer straightforward, compassionate guidance often find her approach helpful. She encourages clients to use their own strengths while learning new ways to handle intense feelings.
Progress is planned one step at a time so change feels manageable. Dr. Winchell conducts work in English and offers a mix of live session formats.
She does not take international clients. The focus is on helping people reduce overwhelm and find clearer ways to move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Winchell uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach helps people learn coping skills for anxiety and stress such as breathing, grounding, and short behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding. Another approach looks at patterns in relationships and emotions so clients can spot repeated cycles and try different behaviors that reduce conflict or isolation.Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to decide which techniques match their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. This means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexible options to fit busy schedules. Video calls are useful for fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people stay in touch between sessions or check in during a stressful day. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to use therapy in real time when challenges arise.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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