About Lori
Lori Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Arizona who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and grief. She also supports those dealing with depression, sleep and eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, career shifts, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy-related struggles. She takes a whole-person approach that links thoughts, body responses, and values.
Lori pays attention to how past experiences shape present choices. Sessions focus on identifying what matters to the client and using practical steps to move toward those values.
Background and approach
Her style blends several approaches so sessions match each person's needs. Lori uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and emotion-focused work for relationship or intimacy concerns. She adapts tools depending on goals and motivation.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations, skill practice, and attention to patterns that keep problems going. Lori also draws on techniques aimed at trauma processing when relevant. Her goal is to help people recognize strengths and build small, steady changes.
With 11 years of experience, Lori combines clinical work with a practical, compassionate outlook. She aims to help people feel heard, learn new skills, and regain a sense of control over daily life.
How Lori’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises or behavioral experiments to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding and reshaping emotional patterns in close relationships and can help with intimacy-related concerns and communication problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit best based on the person’s goals, history, and daily life. That decision can change over time as needs evolve, and different tools may be combined in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t convenient, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, use lower-bandwidth options when needed, and choose formats that feel most comfortable for the kind of work being done.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English