About Lorie
Lorie Boyd is a licensed mental health counselor with 26 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or trouble managing relationships. Parents and people coping with trauma or addiction will find direct, practical support for everyday problems.
She focuses on listening closely and adapting to each person's life and background. Sessions emphasize clearer communication, stronger coping skills, and building self-worth. She pays particular attention to how prejudice, discrimination, or cultural differences affect feelings and behavior.
Background and approach
Clinically, Lorie uses client-centered methods that put the person's goals and experience first. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people change unhelpful thinking and routines. Together these approaches aim to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.
People typically work on small, concrete changes first. That might mean practicing new ways to respond in tense moments, experimenting with different routines, or rehearsing hard conversations. Over time those shifts often make longer-term healing and growth more possible.
Lorie maintains a calm, straightforward style in sessions. She offers compassionate feedback and practical tools so people can try things between sessions. Her practice is based in New York and she conducts work in English.
Approaches and online options for everyday challenges
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and priorities. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps the person decide the next steps. This approach is useful when someone needs acceptance, clearer self-understanding, or help naming what matters most.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and routines affect mood and behavior. It breaks problems into concrete steps and tests small changes in thinking and action. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and habit-based struggles like procrastination or unhelpful coping patterns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to identify needs, try methods that fit their goals, and adjust as progress is made. That helps make sessions feel relevant and practical rather than purely theoretical.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into work or family schedules, offer shorter check-ins when needed, and let people pick the way of communicating that feels most comfortable. Licensed professionals can use these tools to deliver the same conversational work and practical exercises used in traditional sessions, while offering more flexibility for everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- New York, Washington
- Languages
- English
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