About Lori
Lori Mcdunn is a licensed professional counselor with a decade of clinical work. She offers focused care for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life transitions. Lori brings practical support and steady listening to sessions.
She began her path with a Master of Education in Counseling and Human Services and uses that background to guide clear, goal-focused conversations. Lori has spent much of her career helping people cope after trauma and sexual assault, and she pays careful attention to religious trauma when it comes up.
Background and approach
Her practice style emphasizes strengths and realistic steps forward. In sessions she blends approaches so people learn skills and make meaning from difficult events. Lori uses concrete techniques to reduce distress and build routines that improve sleep, eating, and daily functioning.
She also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns when those issues affect someones wellbeing. She works with adults and with couples, and she supports members of the LGBT community and servicemembers according to the needs described. Lori accepts international clients and conducts sessions from Tennessee.
People who come to her can expect straightforward discussion, practical tools, and a focus on small changes that add up. Her aim is to help clients move toward calmer days and clearer choices without jargon.
Approaches that guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences dictate actions, and it is often used when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of living a valued life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete tools for reducing anxious or depressive symptoms. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship so the person feels heard and can explore choices at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Lori will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and will suggest methods that match those needs. That process is collaborative so people can try techniques and adjust the plan as they learn what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work even when travel or time is a barrier.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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