About Lora
Lora Casteline is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 23 years of experience in mental health and substance use care. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. Her approach aims to make starting therapy feel straightforward and manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
She focuses on helping people cope with difficult feelings and behaviors. Sessions tend to be direct and practical. Lora helps clients name what’s happening, try small changes, and build new ways to handle hard moments.
Background and approach
Lora uses therapies that teach skills for handling emotions and thoughts. She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking. She also uses dialectical behavior tools to strengthen emotion regulation and interpersonal skills.
Motivational interviewing and mindfulness practices appear in her work when people need help finding reasons to change or calming their reactions. These approaches are used in simple, step-by-step ways that fit each person’s situation and pace. People who want straightforward guidance about addiction, mood disorders, anger, or life transitions may find her style useful.
Lora aims to make sessions a place to try ideas, reflect, and practice skills between meetings. She offers services to people in Pennsylvania and holds the LPC credential.
How Lora’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and for changing patterns linked to substance use. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships; it can help with strong mood swings, anger, and impulsive actions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review goals, symptoms, and daily life needs, then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked, and the client’s preferences guide which tools are used most often.
Online formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit a short break or work around limited bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between visits, post brief updates, or use written coaching when speaking on camera is difficult. These options give flexibility for varied schedules and communication styles.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English