About Lorie
Lorie Muellenbach is a licensed psychologist practicing in Arizona. She brings nine years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on clear, practical support for stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, anger, and ADHD. She speaks English and uses straightforward strategies to help people cope with difficult moments and everyday struggles.
Her work emphasizes collaboration. She listens first, then helps people set realistic goals and try specific tools that fit their life.
Background and approach
Sessions mix emotional support with concrete problem-solving so progress feels useful and reachable. Lorie has helped people at many life stages, including teens, adults, and older adults. She also offers support for neurodivergent needs such as ADHD, learning differences, and challenges with emotional regulation.
Her background includes caring for people who face caregiving stress, attachment issues, and transitions tied to adoption and foster care. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood disorders, panic, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and impulsivity. Lorie also works with concerns like communication problems, guilt and shame, life purpose, and issues linked to aging and intellectual disability.
Her approach aims to make change manageable. Sessions look at what is most urgent, try small experiments, and build on what works. People who want a steady, practical guide through change often find this style helpful.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based approaches are used in plain, practical ways. Cognitive-behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle panic. These methods break problems into small steps and teach skills you can use between sessions.Skills-based emotion regulation work helps people recognize strong feelings and learn strategies to manage them. This can aid impulsivity, anger, and emotional dysregulation often seen with ADHD and neurodivergent profiles. The therapist pairs skills practice with real-life experiments to build confidence.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that fit their needs, and adjust based on what helps. This process makes it easier to pick methods that work for daily life and specific challenges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions that mirror in-person therapy. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, homework review, or people who prefer typed conversations. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit school, work, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, California
- Languages
- English
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