About Lori
Lori Gordon is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety and stress. She speaks simply and directly, and she meets each person where they are. Lori aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is nervous about starting therapy.
She draws on sixteen years of experience to tailor conversations and plans to each person's needs. Lori has worked with people dealing with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, and depression.
Background and approach
She also supports those grappling with self-esteem, grief, sleep difficulties, parenting strain, anger, career crossroads, and life transitions. Her work often addresses specific concerns such as attachment and abandonment, commitment and control issues, and family of origin matters. Lori also helps people coping with chronic illness or pain, hoarding, guilt and shame, and intimacy-related challenges.
She includes attention to LGBT concerns when relevant to a person's goals. In sessions she uses practical methods drawn from approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and emotionally-focused work. Conversations focus on skills people can try between meetings and on identifying values and actions that matter to them.
Lori is licensed as an LCSW in Missouri. She uses phone, video, live chat, and text messaging for sessions. If someone is ready to begin, they can start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits their needs.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps. It focuses on noticing thoughts and making choices aligned with personal values, which can help with anxiety and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, often using specific exercises between sessions to track progress.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Lori will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what fits and what leads to useful changes.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see and hear a therapist when deeper conversation helps. Phone sessions are useful when video is not possible or when a quieter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging are available for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when someone wants written reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or health needs while working with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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