About Lori
Lori Mcdunn is a licensed professional counselor with a decade of experience helping adults work through stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and trauma. She practices as an LPC-MHSP and brings a calm, strengths-focused style to sessions. Lori speaks English and works with people across Tennessee and internationally through online formats.
Her background includes work with survivors of sexual assault and people coping with religious trauma. Lori often supports those dealing with grief, addiction, ADHD, mood concerns, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She emphasizes practical steps and steady emotional support rather than clinical jargon. In sessions she aims to create a steady, listening space where people can talk through guilt, shame, or painful memories. She centers each meeting on the client’s goals and daily life, using straightforward tools to reduce distress.
Lori prefers short, clear check-ins alongside deeper therapeutic work when needed. Lori draws from several approaches to match what fits each person. She uses skills from cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Acceptance and Commitment ideas help people notice what matters most and take small steps toward it. She also brings client-centered values into the room, keeping the person’s experience first and offering gentle, practical coaching. Sessions are aimed at helping people find more calm, clearer relationships, and better routines for sleep, eating, and work.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
Practical approaches for online therapy and goals
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own experience, offering empathetic listening and support while people find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Lori works collaboratively to figure out which methods match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She combines practical skills with steady listening and adjusts the plan as progress and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video sessions let you work in real time and read facial cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit into busy days or provide quick support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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