About Lori
Dr. Lori Malkasian is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a Doctor of Psychology in counseling and two decades of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, depression, and life transitions.
Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at giving families and individuals tools they can use right away. She listens first to understand what feels most urgent. Then she and the client pick strategies that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions cover things like mood shifts, anger, grief, relationship strain, and problems with attention or impulsivity. Conversations are plainspoken and goal-oriented so people leave with clear next steps. Dr.
Malkasian draws on several commonly used approaches to match the work to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Client-Centered work focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and building on their strengths.
She also uses Emotionally-Focused and Narrative ideas when exploring how emotions and personal stories shape relationships and choices. Her background includes many years supporting people facing adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, and the fallout from trauma or disaster. She also assists those coping with addictions, compassion fatigue, and career or financial stress.
Sessions are available in English and can be scheduled across time zones. People use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their life. Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's own experience and strengths. The therapist listens deeply and helps people name their goals and build on what already works for them, which can be useful for anxiety, parenting stress, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In sessions clients learn concrete tools to shift unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors, a helpful fit for worry, depression, and attention-related struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on how a client responds. That collaborative process helps tailor the work to each person’s goals and daily routine.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or choose a quieter, lower-effort way to share thoughts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling school, work, or caregiving.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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