About Lori
Lori Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting questions, career shifts, grief, and compassion fatigue. Lori writes plainly and offers practical steps that parents can use right away.
Lori frames wellbeing like a hammock supported by four posts - body, mind, emotions, and spirit. She helps people strengthen each post with small, doable changes. That might mean breathing and sleep routines for the body, or communication skills and thought work for the mind.
Background and approach
Emotional work in sessions includes learning how to express feelings and understand how emotions shape thinking. Lori also encourages building supportive peer connections and community to improve day-to-day coping. For some people, exploring spiritual concerns is part of restoring balance.
Her main clinical approach is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used to spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones. Lori blends that with practical coaching around career and parenting tasks when helpful. Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on what the person needs next.
With 27 years of experience as an LPC, she draws on a long career to guide steady, realistic change. Her work emphasizes clear steps you can practice between sessions and ways to measure small improvements over time.
Online approaches and practical care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, is a hands-on method Lori uses to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking. It focuses on real-life situations and teaches skills that reduce anxiety, improve mood, and help with relationship or parenting challenges.Lori also uses straightforward coaching techniques to set goals, break tasks into manageable steps, and track progress. That can help with career moves, parenting plans, or coping with big life changes. Together, these approaches aim to give clear tools you can practice between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Lori works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well when face-to-face interaction helps the work, phone is useful when less bandwidth is available, and messaging or live chat can fit brief check-ins or quick skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to match therapy to a busy schedule and changing life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Multicultural concerns
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English