About Tori
Tori Mays is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety and related struggles and aims to make therapy practical and approachable for people feeling overwhelmed. Her work is collaborative and down-to-earth, with straightforward conversations about the problems that matter most to each person.
She helps people who feel weighed down by anxiety, fear, shame, guilt, self-doubt, or low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Tori also supports those navigating depression, grief, panic attacks, and major life changes. Many seek her help for workplace stress, social anxiety, and questions about life purpose and identity. Tori uses a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to match each person's needs.
She treats the person, not the label, and adapts sessions as goals shift. Sessions often involve talking through patterns, building coping skills, and trying new ways of handling stressful moments. Her background includes work with people experiencing substance use concerns, trauma, career transitions, and attention differences.
This experience informs a practical approach that balances emotional support with skill-building. Tori aims to help clients walk away from sessions with clear steps they can try between meetings. Therapy with Tori centers on partnership.
She listens first, then helps set realistic goals and small experiments to test what works. People who want a friendly, pragmatic counselor for anxiety and life changes may find her style helpful.
How evidence-based methods work online
Two common, evidence-based approaches Tori draws on are cognitive restructuring and skills-based coping work. Cognitive restructuring involves noticing unhelpful thoughts, testing whether they are accurate, and trying alternative, more balanced thoughts to reduce anxiety. Skills-based coping focuses on concrete tools such as breathing techniques, grounding strategies, and stepwise exposure for panic or social fears to make stressful moments more manageable.She also integrates problem-solving methods that break big challenges into smaller steps. This approach helps with career confusion, workplace stress, and life changes by creating clear actions to try between sessions. Together, these methods aim to move conversations into practical experiments so progress can be tracked week to week.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to your history and goals, then suggest techniques to try. If something does not fit, she adjusts the plan so it matches your needs, pace, and preferences.
Online therapy with Tori uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for short updates, between-session coaching, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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