About Lori
Lori Gordon is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of work experience. She focuses on practical steps people can take when stress, anxiety, depression, or ADHD make daily life harder. She aims to meet each person where they are and keep conversations clear and direct.
She listens for what matters most and helps clients set goals that fit their day-to-day life. Sessions often include skill practice and short homework to test what works between meetings.
Background and approach
Lori adapts her pace so people can try things without feeling overwhelmed. Her background includes work with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people facing parenting stress, career changes, sleeping problems, and chronic illness or pain.
That range gives her many options to pull from when a client needs a different approach. Lori uses methods that emphasize values, present-moment awareness, and clear problem-solving. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to shape sessions.
The focus is on what helps the person move toward the life they want. People who choose her can expect straightforward feedback, attention to practical barriers, and collaboration on next steps. Lori guides people through change with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
How Lori brings evidence-based methods to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values, even when anxiety or low mood gets in the way. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and trying different strategies to reduce symptoms and improve routine. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) supports people in clarifying emotions and improving how they connect with others, which can help with relationship strain and intimacy-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lori treats therapy as a collaboration and will help figure out which methods match a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what the client reports and how changes are going.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls are useful for in-depth sessions and skill teaching, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain momentum while balancing school, work, parenting, or medical care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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