About Lori
Lori Mattix is a licensed clinical social worker with 37 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety and stress. She takes a warm, down-to-earth approach and focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Lori works with adults and young adults on a wide range of concerns, including depression, ADHD, anger, grief, addiction, and relationship stress.
She aims to create a respectful, non-judgmental space where people can speak openly.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize listening first, then developing a plan together based on each person's needs. Lori combines client-centered ideas with solution-focused techniques to help clients set manageable goals and make small changes that add up. Her background includes individual and group work and experience with foster care and adoption issues.
She also has experience with multicultural concerns, attachment issues, and social anxiety. That range supports clients facing common life shifts as well as more complex family-of-origin or identity-related concerns. In sessions Lori helps people break problems into workable steps.
She encourages practical coping strategies for daily stress and tools to manage intense moments. Over time the focus can expand to values, routines, and relationships so progress sticks. People who choose Lori often want straightforward guidance and a collaborative plan.
She works with each person to set goals, track progress, and adjust the approach when needed. Her aim is steady, usable support rather than quick fixes.
How Lori’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening closely and shaping sessions around each person's concerns and strengths. Lori uses this approach to help people feel heard, then works with them to choose next steps that fit their life. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on practical change and small, doable goals; it is useful when someone wants immediate tools for anxiety, stress, or coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Lori will talk with the person about what they want to change and what has worked before. Together they decide whether to focus on short-term solutions, deeper personal exploration, or a mix of both, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different routines and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging options suit brief check-ins or flexible timing. These formats make it easier to fit counseling around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while using the same client-centered and solution-focused methods Lori practices.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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