About Lori
Lori Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and mood concerns. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) and works with adults on issues like depression, low self-esteem, grief, and relationship and intimacy struggles. Lori also supports people facing parenting strain, career change, and compassion fatigue.
Lori draws on practical, straightforward techniques in sessions. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Motivational Interviewing supports readiness for change, especially around substance use and lifestyle habits. Her background includes work with veterans, people in substance use treatment, and pregnant and postpartum women in residential settings.
She has run both individual and group sessions for trauma, anxiety, depression, and addiction. This range gives her experience with crisis points and longer-term recovery work. In sessions she aims to build a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters most.
She focuses on practical next steps you can try between meetings, while adapting pace and focus to each person. Lori explains options clearly and helps clients set realistic goals. Lori practices from Arizona and offers services in English.
She blends straightforward talk, coping skills, and motivation-based coaching to help people move forward at their own pace.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Lori uses client-centered therapy to place each person’s concerns and goals at the center of the work. This approach means sessions start with what matters most to the person and the therapist adjusts pace and focus to match. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way, and then try practical changes to improve mood and functioning. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-focused way to explore readiness for change and build motivation around habits like substance use.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lori works together with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That shared planning helps shape session frequency, the kinds of exercises used, and short-term goals to try between meetings.
Online therapy offers flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow a near face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or days when a short message is more practical than a full session. 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
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Tennessee
- Languages
- English