About Lori
Lori Arceneaux is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of practice in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, depression, and addiction. Lori aims to make starting therapy feel less overwhelming for someone reaching out for help.
Lori uses approachable, person-focused methods in sessions. She helps people name what matters most, build clearer communication, and find ways to cope with big emotions.
Background and approach
The work often centers on practical steps that fit into daily life. Her background includes long experience supporting individuals through trauma, grief, and anger. She has guided people dealing with family of origin issues, divorce and separation, blended family concerns, and adoption and foster care matters.
Lori also addresses first responder stress, fertility challenges, and caregiver strain. Therapy sessions can include exploring thoughts and behaviors, practicing mindfulness, and working on emotional connection skills. Techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral and emotionally focused approaches are used to reduce distress and improve interactions.
The Gottman-informed work supports people wanting to improve relationship communication and commitment issues. Lori partners with each person to identify strengths and set achievable goals. She emphasizes clear, practical steps and skills people can use between sessions.
The aim is steady progress toward the life the person wants to build.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting a person’s own goals. In online sessions that means time is spent hearing what matters most and helping people set clear, achievable steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change them. It works well in video or phone sessions when people practice real-life techniques between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coping check-ins, or short exercises between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English