About Lori
Lori Gieseler is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. She brings three decades of experience and a warm, interactive style to sessions. Lori emphasizes practical steps people can use right away.
She centers sessions on respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She practices a client-centered approach that begins by listening and asking reflective questions. Lori also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thought patterns that lead to difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and dialectical skills are used to teach coping tools for intense emotions and relationship problems. Lori has a long history of working with adults and couples and has supported people facing mood disorders, life transitions, and the effects of abuse. She also has experience with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and attachment wounds.
Her work includes helping people handle communication problems, codependency, infidelity, and separation. In sessions she focuses on practical, achievable goals and small changes that add up over time. She tailors plans to each person's situation and encourages self-care steps that fit into daily life.
The aim is clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and healthier interactions. People who prefer a collaborative, down-to-earth approach will find a steady presence in Lori. She helps clients take manageable steps toward better coping and stronger relationships.
Lori practices in Louisiana as an LCSW and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people recognize attachment needs and build more supported ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxious or depressive reactions. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment so emotions feel more manageable and reactions become clearer.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match needs, goals, and personal style. Sessions may combine approaches and evolve as progress is made so the plan fits the client rather than the other way around.
Online therapy with this practice is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text sessions provide shorter, more frequent check-ins and can be easier to fit into a busy day. These options help people access consistent care from different locations and on varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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