About Lori
Lori Cunningham is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 24 years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Lori focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier and more manageable.
She welcomes conversations about social anxiety, panic attacks, and mood concerns. Lori also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, communication problems, guilt, and isolation. Her approach is straightforward and aimed at building skills you can use between sessions.
Background and approach
In sessions she blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That means clients get both understanding and clear strategies - for example, ways to change unhelpful thinking and simple skills for emotion regulation. She also uses solution-focused techniques to set short-term, achievable goals.
Lori often helps people who are rethinking life purpose or facing midlife shifts. She works with issues that often come up for men and women, including forgiveness and self-love work. Conversations move at a pace the person can manage, and practical homework is offered when it fits.
Her style is calm, direct, and collaborative. Lori emphasizes small, steady changes that add up over time. She aims to help people feel more capable navigating day-to-day challenges and transitions.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist follows the person's lead, offering empathy and reflection to help them make sense of feelings and choices. This approach can be helpful for people who need a supportive space to talk through stress, anxiety, or identity questions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Sessions include practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and develop coping strategies for anxiety and mood issues. This approach is useful for reducing panic symptoms and managing day-to-day worry.
The therapist treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with the person about goals and try different techniques to see what fits best. Together they set short-term goals and adjust methods based on progress and preference.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation from another room, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Chat and messaging are convenient for quick check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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