About Lora
Lora Hack is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She focuses on creating a warm, nonjudgmental atmosphere where people can feel seen and heard. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what feels right for each person.
She helps people reconnect with their authentic selves to build resilience and improve relationships. Lora works with issues such as depression, intimacy-related concerns, sleeping problems, anger, and work-related stress.
Background and approach
She also addresses trauma, including military sexual trauma, and supports those dealing with obsessive thoughts, panic, and post-traumatic stress. Lora draws from several practical approaches to therapy and adapts techniques to individual needs. Her style emphasizes empathy and acceptance while inviting people to try new ways of coping.
She encourages examining past wounds and current stressors to identify patterns that keep showing up. In sessions she focuses on small, doable steps and practices clients can use between meetings. Conversations often include learning new skills for anxiety, slowing down with mindfulness, and experimenting with different behaviors to test what helps.
The pace is guided by the client and shaped by real-life demands. People who reach out can expect plain, direct talk and steady support for building self-worth and more stable relationships. Lora aims to help people move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices and greater day-to-day coping.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting caught up in them, then choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce worry and shift behavior. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental relationship where a person feels heard and can explore identity, self-worth, and relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lora will help clients decide which methods fit their goals and daily life, and she adjusts techniques as needs change. Together they set practical goals and try small steps to see what helps most in real situations.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging lets someone send short updates or use coaching-style support between meetings. These formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, sleep challenges, or caregiving while working on anxiety and trauma.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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