About Lorri
Lorri Charnas is an Ohio licensed independent social worker with 25 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief and loss, bipolar disorder, depression, and coping with major life changes. She emphasizes that clients know their own stories and brings a respectful, strengths-based approach to the work.
She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable. Lorri uses sessions to help people build insight and self-compassion. She encourages practical changes that fit daily life and celebrates small progress along the way.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and tailored. Sessions focus on clear goals, strategies to manage symptoms, and ways to restore balance. She helps people with caregiver strain, attachment questions, communication problems, and family of origin issues among other concerns.
Lorri has worked across a range of clinical settings during her 25-year career. Her background supports work with co-morbidity, codependency, commitment concerns, and first responder stress. She also addresses aging and geriatric issues and concerns tied to gender dysphoria.
In practice she guides clients toward insight and healthier routines. Conversations are practical and focused on tools that can be used between sessions. The emphasis is on gradual change and on helping people reengage with the parts of life they want to enjoy.
Approaches and how they fit into online care
Her practice uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and insight. One common strand is goal-oriented skill building where sessions teach specific strategies to manage anxiety and depression, such as breathing exercises, activity planning, or behavioral experiments. These techniques help reduce day-to-day symptoms and make routines easier to manage.Another approach emphasizes insight and emotion work to process grief, relationship patterns, and attachment questions. This helps people understand how past experiences shape current reactions and supports clearer decisions about change. Both approaches are applied in ways that match each person’s needs rather than following a single fixed method.
Deciding which approach will help most is collaborative. The therapist works with clients to identify priorities, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful. Clients can expect regular check-ins about goals and progress so the approach stays relevant to their life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face when deeper conversation is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, coping check-ins, or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when in-person visits aren’t convenient.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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