About Lorie
Lorie Boyd is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in New York with 26 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and the fallout from trauma. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
She uses plain talk and careful listening to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on improving day-to-day coping, managing strong emotions, and repairing hurtful patterns in relationships.
Background and approach
She pays special attention to how culture, prejudice, and discrimination shape a person's stress and sense of self. Lorie blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients test new ways of thinking and behaving. That combination supports work on social anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, and intimacy-related concerns.
She also addresses issues like addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, grief, and career stress. Her background includes long experience with family of origin problems, domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, and first responder issues. She often helps people untangle codependency and communication problems so they can set clearer boundaries and connect more honestly with others.
Her sessions aim to move people toward self-love, steadier mood, and clearer goals. People who want straightforward guidance and tools to manage anxiety and rebuild trust in themselves may find her approach useful.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and responding with empathy and respect. In online sessions this means the therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps clients clarify goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete techniques to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits. Online CBT sessions may include homework, thought records, and behavioral experiments you can practice between appointments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will meet clients where they are and collaborate to decide whether client-centered listening, CBT techniques, or a mix will best match goals and preferences. That process can start in the first few sessions and be adjusted as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people read nonverbal cues and do deeper conversational work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good fit for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for quick check-ins, coping tools between sessions, and people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or irregular schedules while using the therapist's approaches to address anxiety, stress, and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- New York, Washington
- Languages
- English
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