About Lori
Lori Ferguson is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of practice in Arizona. She focuses on emotional wellness and practical steps people can take to feel steadier. Lori helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and struggles with self-esteem.
She often supports people facing big life changes and those coping with chronic illness or compassion fatigue. Lori also helps with attachment concerns, social anxiety, panic attacks, and issues that affect women’s mental health.
Background and approach
Her work includes addressing body image, guilt, shame, and feelings of isolation. Lori’s sessions are warm and collaborative. She listens closely and helps clients set clear, manageable goals.
Together they identify patterns, try new coping skills, and track what works in day-to-day life. Her background includes long experience helping people balance work, relationships, and health challenges. Clients may focus on communication skills, forgiveness, or finding greater life purpose.
Lori draws on practical, evidence-based techniques to guide each person toward clearer choices. People who reach out can expect straightforward conversations and a plan tailored to their needs. Lori works in English and offers several online formats.
She aims to help clients build resilience and stronger self-care habits.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Evidence-based techniques Lori uses focus on clear, practical skills people can try between sessions. One approach emphasizes building coping and emotion-regulation skills to reduce symptoms of anxiety and panic. This involves identifying triggers, practicing breathing and grounding exercises, and rehearsing responses to stressful situations. Another strand of work centers on improving relationship patterns and attachment concerns. That work helps people notice unhelpful interaction styles, practice new communication moves, and repair trust in important relationships. It can be useful for loneliness, communication problems, and difficulties with boundaries. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lori will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and choose the tools that fit the client’s life. Online formats offer practical benefits for accessing care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare, or health-related schedules.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English