About Lori
Lori Matheson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, ADHD, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. Lori emphasizes the person's own strengths and life story.
She sees clients as the expert on their experience and works alongside them to build practical ways forward.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, doable steps rather than quick fixes. Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take action.
Mindfulness practices are offered to help calm the mind and improve focus. Lori also incorporates attachment-based and client-centered ways of working. That means she pays attention to relational patterns and listens without judgment as a starting point for change.
The work often looks like talking through patterns, trying new behaviors, and reflecting on what matters most. With 15 years of experience, Lori brings steady support for people adjusting to loss, grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns, sleep problems, and caregiver stress. She offers a direct but warm style that aims to make therapy useful in day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people get clear about what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when thoughts or feelings get in the way. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that contribute to distress and on practicing different, more helpful ways of thinking and acting. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus and calm, which can help with stress, attention challenges, and emotional ups and downs.Lori works collaboratively to find the best approach for each person. She listens first, discusses different methods, and adjusts plans based on goals and what feels most useful. Figuring out the right mix of strategies is part of the therapy process rather than a one-time decision.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, and people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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