About Lorie
Lorie Muellenbach is a licensed psychologist in Arizona who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, anger, and ADHD-related struggles. She brings nine years of clinical experience and a calm, practical style to sessions. Lorie speaks English and offers therapy through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to create straightforward plans clients can follow between sessions. Lorie emphasizes practical strategies that build resilience and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills that reduce overwhelm and help people manage strong emotions more effectively. Lorie has worked across the lifespan and adapts her approach to each person’s stage of life. She pays attention to how past relationships, family of origin issues, and attachment concerns shape current patterns.
Lorie also supports people navigating adoption and foster care questions, caregiving stress, and aging-related concerns. People who have neurodivergent traits, including ADHD, may find her style helpful for organizing routines, managing impulsivity, and addressing executive function challenges. She also addresses mood issues, panic and panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and communication problems in practical ways.
Therapy is delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and sessions vary in cost by location and therapist availability. To begin, a person selects Start Therapy, completes a short matching questionnaire, and then schedules sessions based on the therapist’s availability.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Many clients benefit from learning concrete skills they can use between sessions. One approach focuses on behavioral strategies and practical problem solving to reduce anxiety and manage daily stressors. It teaches step-by-step actions like breaking tasks into smaller parts, setting gentle routines, and practicing short behavior experiments to test worries.Another common approach addresses thoughts and how they influence feelings and actions. This method helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, try different interpretations, and replace extremes with more balanced thoughts. It can be useful for panic, obsessive thinking, and persistent worry.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer brief support between sessions and can help with reminders, skill practice, or quick problem solving. These options give flexibility while keeping focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, California
- Languages
- English
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