About Lori
Lori Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ADHD. She uses practical, down-to-earth language to guide people toward clearer thinking and steadier days. Lori aims to make therapy manageable and focused on real-life needs.
She describes therapy as work on the whole person - thoughts, behaviors, and daily habits. Sessions often include straightforward strategies for coping, emotion regulation, and behavior change.
Background and approach
Lori draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to give clients tools they can use between appointments. Her background includes eleven years in clinical practice as an LPC in Arizona. That experience informs her flexible, person-focused style.
She adapts methods to each person’s concerns and goals instead of using a one-size-fits-all routine. In sessions she helps people look at how past experiences shape current patterns. She pays attention to values and what matters most to each person.
Together, they identify small, practical steps that fit daily life and responsibilities. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that combines emotion-focused conversation with skills-based practice. Lori also addresses related areas such as sleep, eating, career stress, anger, and self-esteem so progress in one area supports improvements elsewhere.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking action toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, life transitions, and motivation by teaching practical steps tied to personal values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) centers on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with concrete behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, mood difficulties, sleep problems, and ADHD-related challenges that involve routines and organization.
Lori approaches therapy collaboratively and treats finding the right approach as part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily routines, and then shape sessions around what seems most useful. That means trying methods, checking how they feel, and adjusting as needed together.
Online sessions are offered via video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction; phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited; live chat or text sessions are helpful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules and support steady progress without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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