About Lori
Lori Ranfeld greets people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to begin. She writes in a straightforward way and focuses on making the first step feel manageable. Lori is a Licensed Professional Counselor, with 15 years of experience helping people sort through stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
She makes space for honest conversation and helps clients name what is hardest right now. Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress and build small, useful changes that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Lori listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and offers practical ways to try things differently. Lori works with issues such as parenting challenges, family conflict, grief, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem or anger. She also supports people dealing with addictions, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, and life transitions like divorce or career changes.
Her practice includes attention to ADHD, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related concerns. Her background includes long-term clinical work in Missouri. Over 15 years she has helped people from many walks of life who need steady, compassionate guidance.
Lori aims to match therapeutic tools to each person's goals rather than apply a single method to everyone. In sessions she keeps language plain and steps clear. The goal is to leave each meeting with one or two things to try before the next appointment.
That practical focus helps people feel progress even when change takes time.
Approaches that guide online work
Many clients find clear, evidence-based techniques helpful when feeling overwhelmed. Lori emphasizes practical cognitive approaches that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new, more balanced ways of thinking. This work often reduces anxiety and improves mood by changing everyday thought and behavior patterns.She also uses behavior-focused strategies that break problems into small, doable steps. These techniques can help with sleep and eating difficulties, managing anger, building new routines, and addressing addictive behaviors by creating concrete experiments to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist and client review goals, try methods for a few sessions, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process keeps the work grounded in real needs and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video sessions let most of the in-person experience happen remotely. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share thoughts between calls and get support in tighter time windows. These options help therapy fit schedules and day-to-day constraints.
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What this counselor 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