About Lori
Dr. Lori Dougherty is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Colorado. She brings ten years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction.
Lori focuses on building a strong working relationship so people feel heard and understood from the start. Her approach centers on meeting each person where they are. She listens first, then helps people set clear goals and practical steps forward.
She blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness strategies to address patterns that keep people stuck.
Background and approach
Lori also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help regulate intense emotions and improve day-to-day coping. For clients carrying trauma or distressing memories, she integrates elements of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in appropriate cases. Motivational techniques support change when substance use or avoidance is part of the picture.
Sessions focus on real-life problems such as parenting strain, relationship conflict, grief, and issues with self-esteem or control. Lori pays attention to how family of origin patterns, codependency, and communication problems influence current challenges. Work in therapy emphasizes small practical changes that add up over time.
People who choose Lori can expect a clear, collaborative process. She treats the client as the expert on their life and acts as a guide and coach. If someone is ready to make a change, she helps map out steps and build the skills to follow through.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building rapport so people feel understood before any plans are made. This approach helps clarify goals and makes other techniques easier to apply. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and shift unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Lori will work with each person to figure out which approaches fit best. She treats clients as partners in planning care and adjusts methods to match goals and preferences. Finding the right mix is a process she navigates together with the client, combining tools from different models when useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth work and skills practice. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing check-ins, brief coaching, and reinforcement of skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and sustain steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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