About Lori
Lori Brinkley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She works with adults facing anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, grief, and life transitions. Lori takes a practical, down-to-earth approach and aims to make therapy feel manageable and real for busy people.
Her style is warm and direct. She uses simple tools to help people change unhelpful patterns and build coping skills. Lori brings humor when it fits and holds space for hard feelings when they come up.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and focused on goals that matter to each person. Over her career she has helped people deal with trauma and abuse, depression, parenting and co-parenting challenges, adoption-related issues, caregiver stress, and the strain of workplace demands. She also supports those facing intimacy problems, infidelity, and family of origin concerns.
Her background includes long experience with grief, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Lori relies on methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies, Client-Centered work, and solution-focused techniques. She blends those approaches into straightforward plans you can try between sessions.
The goal is to find what works for you and then practice new ways of coping. Outside of work she is a mother who loves being outdoors, searching out waterfalls, and traveling. She draws on that life experience when helping people face fears, try new behaviors, and build more joy into their routines.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding where you are. The therapist follows your lead, reflects your experience, and helps you identify what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits. These methods are useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and many everyday challenges.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and try techniques that match your needs. Over a few sessions you can see what fits and adjust the plan together so it feels useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are helpful when visual cues matter and for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, and practicing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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