About Lori
Lori Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of practice. She holds the LCSW credential and works from Arizona. She focuses on practical, day-to-day help for people coping with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, mood concerns, and ADHD.
Lori uses short, focused conversations to clarify what matters most to each person. She aims to make sessions useful from the start, offering clear steps people can try between appointments.
Background and approach
Her style is down-to-earth and goal-oriented while staying supportive and respectful. Her background includes work with veterans, people in residential treatment during pregnancy and postpartum, and both inpatient and outpatient settings. That experience shaped her approach to trauma, substance use, and mood disorders.
She also has experience providing groups and individual counseling for anxiety and depression. Lori trained at both bachelor and master levels in social work with a specialty in substance use disorder treatment and clinical services. She holds licensure in Arizona and Tennessee as an LCSW and brings about 20 years of practice to her work.
This history informs the practical strategies she offers in sessions. People working with Lori can expect a blend of client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral tools, and motivational interviewing techniques. She helps clients set realistic goals, manage symptoms day-to-day, and work through life transitions.
Sessions are framed around what the client wants to change and what fits their life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead to build trust and clarify goals. It works well for people who need a supportive space to talk through their priorities and feel heard.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify thought and behavior patterns that worsen stress, anxiety, or mood problems. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful habits over time.
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, nonjudgmental way to explore readiness for change. It can help people wrestling with addiction, ambivalence, or big life shifts find their own reasons to try something different.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lori will help clients choose methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying ideas, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging provides quick check-ins or brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel demands while keeping the practical focus of treatment.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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