About Lori
Lori Gieseler is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She connects in a warm, interactive way and focuses on meeting each person where they are.
Her goal is to help people build practical skills and kinder self-talk so daily life feels more manageable. She trained at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and holds a master's degree in social work.
Background and approach
Lori has worked across a wide range of settings and with adults and adolescents, including partners navigating betrayal and people adjusting to unexpected life changes. Her long practice gives her plain-language tools people can use right away. Lori uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different responses.
She also relies on client-centered methods that keep sessions guided by what matters most to the person in front of her. Mindfulness and attachment-focused ideas are woven into sessions when they fit the client’s goals. Sessions are practical and paced to each person.
Lori asks reflective questions and works collaboratively to develop steps a person can take between meetings. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation. People who come to Lori often want clear ways to cope, better communication skills, and strategies to handle strong emotions.
She helps clients build habits that support steadier moods and healthier relationships over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape the way people connect and feel safe with others. In therapy this can help someone understand patterns in close relationships and try new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy means sessions are led by the person's concerns and goals, with the therapist offering empathy and reflective questions to help clarify what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors to improve mood and reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans can shift over time as progress is made or priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, shorter updates, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These formats make it possible to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English