About Lois
Lois Plock is a licensed clinical social worker who helps adults managing anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and struggles with addiction. She speaks plainly and works collaboratively to make therapy practical and focused on daily life. Her style is compassionate and direct, aimed at helping people find clearer coping steps and regain a sense of control.
She began her mental health career after entering education later in life and brings that life experience to sessions.
Background and approach
Lois has worked in residential addiction treatment and intensive outpatient programs. She has led support groups, taught life skills, and given talks on recovery and resilience. Lois often blends talk therapy with skills practice.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and on mindfulness to strengthen present-moment focus. Dialectical skills are used to manage intense emotions and improve tolerance for distress. Her background also includes Christian counseling perspectives, which she can incorporate when it fits a client's values.
Lois emphasizes collaboration - she and the client set goals together and choose practical steps to meet them. Clients can expect sessions that balance empathy with clear guidance. Lois aims to help people reduce overwhelm, improve impulse control, and rebuild routines that support recovery and well-being.
How Lois Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Lois often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. That approach is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day challenges like managing impulsivity.She also draws from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Those skills help when strong feelings disrupt relationships or lead to risky behaviors. When clients want a gentler, acceptance-based focus, she integrates elements of acceptance and commitment therapy to explore values and build committed action steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lois will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. She adjusts methods over time based on what is helpful and what the client wants to focus on.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging offer shorter touchpoints and written reminders of skills. These options let people practice skills between sessions and stay consistent even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Florida
- Languages
- English
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