About Lori
Lori Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. She supports people dealing with sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and other life changes. Lori practices in Arizona and brings 11 years of experience to her work as an LPC.
She focuses on the whole person and pays attention to how the body, mind, and emotions connect.
Background and approach
Sessions often look at past experiences that shape current patterns. Lori uses practical tools to help people notice physical reactions and to build new coping skills that fit daily life. Her approach blends somatic awareness with evidence-based therapies.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered techniques to tailor sessions to each person. The work may include mindful body-based practices alongside talk therapy and skill practice. People can expect a collaborative style where goals and methods are set together.
Lori adapts each session to what feels most useful for the individual, whether that is short-term skills work or deeper processing of past wounds. She aims to help people reconnect with their values and find practical ways to move forward. Therapy with Lori is available in English.
Sessions can be held through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session through the site.
Approaches that combine body awareness and practical skills
Somatic work focuses on how the body holds stress and emotion. It uses gentle attention to bodily sensations to help people notice patterns and shift physical responses linked to anxiety, trauma, or chronic stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take action toward them while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation and meaning matter.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills for issues like anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, comfort level, and daily life. That may mean combining somatic practices with ACT or CBT and adjusting over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions provide an audio-only option, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins and skills practice between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while meeting personal needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English