About Lori
Lori Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma. She brings 11 years of experience to sessions and focuses on understanding how past events shape present feelings and behavior. Her style aims at treating the whole person - mind, body, and spirit.
Lori listens closely and adapts each meeting to what the individual needs that day. She uses practical techniques so people can try new ways of coping between sessions.
Background and approach
Lori blends several approaches in her work. She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thought patterns, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and take valued action. Sessions are shaped around the person's goals and motivation.
Painful memories and trauma are a frequent focus. Lori helps people identify roots of distress and build skills to reduce symptoms, manage cravings, sleep better, or handle relationship and intimacy issues. She also addresses concerns like eating and body image, parenting strain, anger, and career stress.
People can expect a warm, respectful tone and a practical plan. Lori emphasizes helping people notice what matters to them and taking small, manageable steps toward those values. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.
Practical approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new, more realistic ways of thinking to change mood and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication in stressful moments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Lori will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they decide what to try first and check in about what is helpful as therapy continues.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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