Lori Smith , LPC

Lori Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of clinical experience who takes a whole-person approach to therapy. She blends an appreciation for how mind, body, and spirit interact with a focus on understanding and healing roots from the past. Trained as a Holistic Nutritionist, Hypnotherapist, and Life Coach, she integrates multiple perspectives to support lasting change while tailoring care to each person’s unique situation.

Specializing in trauma therapy, Lori is certified in EMDR, a trauma-focused method that helps people process painful memories and reduce their ongoing impact. She works with a broad range of concerns, including depression, anxiety and panic, personality and mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, and coping with life changes.

Her style is eclectic and integrative, adapting methods to match a client’s goals, motivation, and expectations. She draws on cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavioral techniques, solution-focused strategies, exposure work, and EMDR to address symptoms and the beliefs that sustain them. Lori emphasizes helping people identify their values and worth, build coping skills, and heal the underlying patterns that shape present-day challenges. She aims to foster dignity, respect, and a collaborative path toward each person’s potential.

Approach-Oriented Online Care with a Mind-Body Focus

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions where values-based direction is needed.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a skills-focused approach that examines how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact; it offers practical strategies to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and mood disorders by changing unhelpful patterns.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship in which the therapist listens closely and supports each person’s own capacity for growth; it can help with self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and navigating life changes.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lori will work with each person to identify goals, preferences, and the strategies most likely to fit their needs, adjusting methods over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and varying comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access support from home, and choose the format that best supports engagement and progress.