About Dorrie
Dorrie Lombardi Chandler is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, grief, and relationship or parenting concerns. She uses a warm, nonjudgmental style and aims to make conversations straightforward and useful for everyday life. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings.
Her approach is built around listening closely and tailoring work to each person’s needs. She leans on proven methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to address thinking patterns, emotional reactions, and values-driven goals.
Background and approach
Dialectical skills and emotion-focused ideas are also used to improve regulation and communication. Dorrie emphasizes a collaborative relationship. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps set clear, achievable goals.
Therapy often includes short exercises, thought records, or simple behavioral experiments to test what helps. She has 19 years of professional experience providing care in Florida and brings practical support for life changes, impulse control, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue. Her work also covers areas like attachment wounds, codependency, body image, and post-traumatic stress symptoms.
People who prefer straightforward guidance and hands-on tools tend to do well with her style. The emphasis is on learning skills, making small changes, and building routines that fit daily life. Dorrie aims to help clients leave sessions feeling clearer and more able to handle what comes next.
How specific approaches translate to online work
Dorrie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT sessions often include homework like thought records and small experiments to try between meetings, which work well in an online format.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify what matters most and build actions around those values. ACT sessions focus on practical exercises to accept difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful goals, an approach that fits well with goal-setting over video or messaging.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and suggest approaches that match goals. That plan can change as work progresses and new priorities come up.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and have longer, interactive sessions. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, coping reminders, or to share worksheets between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or family routines and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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