About Doriece
Doriece Choy is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who uses practical, strengths-based methods to help people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She draws on years of clinical experience to help clients build confidence and find manageable ways forward. Dori keeps sessions straightforward and focused on real life needs.
Dori centers sessions on listening first. She helps people name what feels hard and then tries small, doable steps to change it.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and steady habit changes rather than quick fixes. Her approach blends attachment-based work with client-centered and cognitive-behavioral techniques. That mix lets her address relationship patterns, day-to-day thinking, and emotional regulation.
She also uses elements of dialectical and emotionally-focused work when strong feelings or relationship strain are central. Clients come for many concerns, including ADHD, addictions, parenting strain, grief, anger, and life transitions. Dori also supports those coping with family origin issues, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, and co-occurring conditions.
She aims to make the room a steady place to learn new responses. Dori holds LCSW licensure in Illinois and has 13 years as a therapist. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled in a variety of online formats.
She works collaboratively to match goals and methods to each person’s situation.
How Dori’s Approaches Work Online
Doriece often uses attachment-based and client-centered methods in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationship patterns affect current reactions, helping people notice and shift repeated responses. Client-centered work focuses on being heard and respected, giving people space to explore feelings at their own pace.She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions because it breaks big problems into simpler steps. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a shared process; the therapist will discuss options and adapt techniques to a person’s goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, written reflection, or continuing work between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English