About Lora
Lora Casteline is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 23 years of experience in mental health and substance use care. She focuses on practical support for people facing anxiety and stress. Her work also addresses addiction, trauma, grief, mood concerns, and life transitions.
Lora aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. Lora keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try small changes, and build skills that reduce distress.
Background and approach
Conversations are calm and direct, and she encourages clients to set realistic steps between sessions. She uses approaches that include cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to address thoughts and reactions. When needed, she draws on skills from dialectical behavior strategies and motivational interviewing to strengthen coping and resolve mixed motivation around change.
The emphasis is on tools you can use right away. Lora has worked with concerns such as depression, bipolar challenges, ADHD, social anxiety, and substance use. She also supports people dealing with guilt, codependency, family of origin issues, first responder stress, and finding life purpose.
Her sessions often tackle overlapping problems rather than a single issue. The tone in her practice is nonjudgmental and practical. Clients are invited to talk plainly about what is hard and to try new ways of responding.
Progress is treated as step-by-step work that fits a person’s life and goals.
How Lora’s Approaches Work Online
CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and practicing different responses to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. DBT - Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict. Online DBT-style work often includes skills practice and coaching around emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lora will review your goals and preferences, and suggest which methods to try first. She invites clients to give feedback so techniques can be adjusted over time to better fit needs and daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you work face-to-face when scheduling allows. Phone can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill coaching, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options help therapy fit around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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