- Years in practice
- 3
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Dori
Dori Grace is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with three years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for parents and adults coping with stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. Dori aims to make the first step toward support feel manageable and clear.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through difficult feelings. Sessions tend to be straightforward and collaborative. The goal is to build skills that help with everyday challenges like low confidence, overwhelming worry, or persistent anger.
Background and approach
Dori uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to help clients manage strong emotions and improve reactions under stress. That can look like learning grounding techniques, building routines for emotional regulation, or practicing new ways to communicate when tensions rise. She often supports people dealing with parenting strain, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment questions, and postpartum challenges.
Dori also helps those facing grief, addiction struggles, or career and life-purpose doubts. In session she focuses on concrete tools and small changes that add up over time. Conversations include checking what’s working, problem solving around barriers, and practicing new skills between meetings.
Her approach is steady and practical, aimed at helping people regain more control in daily life.
What Dori works with
Everything Dori lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Dori helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dori lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How DBT skills translate to online care
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) centers on building skills to manage intense emotions and reduce reactive behavior. In plain terms, DBT teaches grounding, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to help during panic, anger, or overwhelming stress. It can be helpful for people dealing with trauma responses, mood swings, and difficulties staying calm in parenting moments.When starting work together, Dori will help figure out which approaches fit a person's goals and daily life. That process is collaborative - she will listen to what is most urgent, try a few tools, and adjust plans based on what actually helps. Finding the right mix of skill practice and problem solving is part of the work itself.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions fit into real life. Video is useful for longer conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility for people balancing parenting, work, and other responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Dori
What concerns does Dori commonly address?
Dori works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, self esteem, depression, addictions, relationship and family problems, grief, anger, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes among other concerns.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
She offers a calm, practical style focused on learning skills and testing small changes. Sessions are collaborative and aim to produce tools clients can use between meetings.
What is Dori's professional background?
Dori has three years of clinical experience and is licensed in Indiana as an LCSW, which means she practices as a licensed clinical social worker.
Where is Dori licensed to practice?
She holds an LCSW license in Indiana and provides services while based in that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can international clients work with Dori?
She is not accepting international clients at this time and works with clients within her licensed region.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be completed by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How are costs and scheduling handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.
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