About Lori
Lori Ranfeld is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to make it easier for someone to begin a conversation about what feels hard right now. Lori focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions to feel better day to day.
Her approach centers on building an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared.
Background and approach
Lori works with clients on relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, grief, trauma, addictions, and issues with self-esteem and anger. She also supports people facing career questions, life transitions, and compassion fatigue. Lori emphasizes collaboration.
She helps people set clear goals, try small changes, and notice what works. Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth, with tools tailored to each person’s needs rather than one-size-fits-all plans. Over 15 years she has guided people through healing after sexual assault and abuse, helped those dealing with bipolar symptoms, and assisted clients with eating, sleeping, and intimacy-related struggles.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family issues, and codependency. She offers multiple formats for connecting, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Lori invites anyone who is ready to take a next step to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Lori uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical skills and steady progress. One common approach she relies on involves teaching coping and emotional regulation strategies to reduce overwhelming anxiety and manage mood swings; these tools can help with day-to-day stress and sleeping or eating disruptions. Another frequent focus is relationship and communication work, where she helps people practice clear ways to express needs, set boundaries, and repair connection after conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lori collaborates with each person to identify goals and preferences, then adapts techniques over time. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts plans when something doesn’t fit, so therapy stays useful and relevant to the client’s life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for meeting with Lori. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and between-session support possible when schedules are tight or a shorter contact is needed. These options make it simpler to fit care into work, school, or family routines while still working toward personal goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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