About Lori
Lori Fitch is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with 24 years of clinical experience. She began her career after graduating in 2001 and has worked with people across a wide age range. Lori brings steady, practical support when life feels overwhelming.
Her background includes extensive outpatient work and school-based counseling. Early in her career she provided trauma support after the September 11th attacks and later took part in a county crisis response team that assists schools after traumatic events.
Background and approach
She also works as a high school counselor and has developed programs to help students and parents manage mental health concerns. Lori uses a mix of approaches to fit each person. She draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
Sessions focus on clear goals, simple skills, and steady progress rather than jargon. She helps people cope with stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addiction, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, and work or career struggles. Additional focus areas include attachment concerns, body image, codependency, blended family issues, and sexual identity questions.
Lori also works with challenges like anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she aims to be warm, open-minded, and interactive. Clients can expect active listening, practical suggestions, and a sense of humor when appropriate.
Lori frames therapy as a partnership where goals and pace are set together.
How Lori's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding your perspective and setting goals that matter to you. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps you decide the next steps to try.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with clearer thinking and useful actions. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and changes in routine.
Emotionally-focused techniques help people name and rework patterns in close relationships and emotional responses. This can be useful for intimacy issues, attachment concerns, and improving communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lori will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and together you will choose which methods to try. She adapts strategies as progress is made and keeps the plan collaborative.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit into busy days or provide quick support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school schedules, work breaks, or different time zones while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English