About Lori
Lori Mello is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and life changes. She offers a warm, interactive approach that aims to make talking about hard things feel manageable. Lori uses practical methods and plain language so conversations stay focused and useful.
She brings 21 years of experience in mental health services, including individual and group counseling and administrative roles in social service programs.
Background and approach
That background shapes a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs. Lori avoids labeling and treats people with respect and compassion. In sessions she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Mindfulness Therapy.
Those approaches help people notice unhelpful thinking, find motivation for change, and practice present-moment skills to reduce distress. Lori combines these methods according to what each person finds most helpful. People often come for help with depression, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, career stresses, compassion fatigue, and social anxiety.
She also supports those dealing with multicultural issues, relationship patterns like jealousy or non-monogamy, and questions about life purpose. Lori works at the pace of the person she’s with and focuses on practical steps. Her practice includes video, phone, chat, and text-based messaging options.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the person’s timing.
How Lori integrates practical approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person with empathy and respect. It helps people feel heard and decide what changes matter most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete tools to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Lori will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan so the work fits the person's needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation time, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, quick planning, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use the style of contact that feels most helpful.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Lori commonly address?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available online?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.