About Lori
Lori Arceneaux is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She practices in Louisiana and focuses on practical ways to steady emotions and improve daily functioning. Lori aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through hard moments and start to make small changes.
Over two decades she developed experience supporting people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, addiction concerns, and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also helps with self-esteem, anger, coping with life changes, and issues tied to adoption, blended families, fertility, and caregiver stress. Lori draws on multiple approaches to match the work to what the person needs. Her style is straightforward and warm.
She listens first to learn what matters most, then suggests techniques that fit the person’s life. That might be mood-focused exercises, communication skills, or ways to reduce worry in daily routines. Lori uses client-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness tools to address thoughts and habits that maintain anxiety.
She also uses Emotionally-Focused and Gottman-informed ideas when the focus is on repairing or strengthening close relationships. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person’s comfort. People who want a conversation about realistic next steps often find her approach helpful.
She guides people through small, practical shifts rather than overnight fixes. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and better ways of handling stress and conflict.
Approach and online care for relationship and anxiety work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship. It helps people feel heard and guides them to identify their own solutions and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical steps to reduce worry and shift unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and reshape emotional responses within close relationships, useful when communication or trust is strained.Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques so they fit daily life rather than forcing a single model.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets visual cues guide conversation while phone can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue momentum between in-depth sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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