About Lori
Lori Mattix is a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, ADHD, and life transitions. She offers steady, practical support and listens closely to what each person brings to therapy. Her straightforward approach focuses on real problems and usable steps forward.
She draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s goals and perspective. Sessions begin by listening carefully and then shaping a plan together.
Background and approach
Lori also uses solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable objectives and track progress between visits. Over a long career she has worked with people facing depression, trauma, grief, and anger, and she has background in foster care and adoption concerns. She also supports clients struggling with addictions, relationship problems, self-esteem, and eating issues.
She understands how ADHD can affect daily life and priorities therapy around the challenges a person describes. Her style is respectful and nonjudgmental. She aims to build trust and flexibility so people feel comfortable trying new strategies.
Lori helps clients break down worries into manageable steps and practice changes that fit their routines. Sessions are offered in English from Illinois. Her LCSW credential indicates a clinical social work license.
People who choose to begin are invited to shape the direction of counseling with Lori’s guidance and support.
How Lori’s Methods Work Online
Lori uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s priorities and lived experience. That means sessions start with listening and then shape goals based on what matters most to the client. This approach helps with issues like anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship stress, and adjusting to life changes.She also uses solution-focused therapy, which narrows attention to specific, achievable changes. Sessions set concrete short-term goals and track small wins. This method is useful for tackling problems such as ADHD-related daily struggles, coping strategies for stress, and practical steps for managing behavior patterns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lori will ask about your needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest ways to proceed. That collaborative process lets you try an approach and adjust it over time if something doesn’t fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send shorter updates or check in between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping focus on the goals you set together.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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