- Years in practice
- 27
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Lori
Lori Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who helps people facing parenting challenges, relationship strain, and life transitions. She focuses on practical strategies that reduce stress and make day-to-day coping easier. Lori speaks plainly and aims to give straightforward tools parents can use between sessions.
Her approach treats each person as made of four parts - body, mind, emotions, and spirit. For the body she emphasizes breathing, movement, and sleep to reduce tension.
Background and approach
For the mind she uses thought work and reading-based exercises to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. Emotion work includes naming and expressing feelings and building healthier connections with peers and community supports. Spiritual exploration is available when someone wants meaning or resilience beyond practical coping skills.
Lori blends these areas to help people balance the demands in their lives. With 27 years of experience, Lori brings a steady, practical focus rather than high-level theory. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to challenge thoughts that increase stress and to teach concrete behavior changes.
She also addresses family of origin topics, multicultural concerns, and women's issues when those matters are relevant. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Lori works with adults who want coaching around career, parenting, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, or compassion fatigue and seeks to make therapy useful and manageable from week to week.
What Lori works with
Everything Lori lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Lori helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Family of origin issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Women's issues
Approaches Lori lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Using CBT and practical strategies in online care
CBT helps people notice and change thought patterns that fuel anxiety and stress. Sessions often include identifying specific unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to see what works in daily life. This approach is useful for parenting worries, relationship stress, and anxiety symptoms.Lori also uses body-focused techniques like breathing and sleep habits to lower physical tension, and emotion-focused work to name feelings and improve how someone expresses them. These short, practical exercises aim to produce changes you can try between appointments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match goals, needs, and comfort level. If something isn’t working, adjustments are made so the plan remains practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat options allow brief check-ins or flexible scheduling. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into busy parenting and work routines.
Questions people ask about Lori
What kinds of concerns does Lori focus on?
She focuses on parenting, relationship issues, stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, career coaching, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles.
What style of therapy does she use?
Lori uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. She also blends practical body, emotion, and spirit-focused techniques.
How much experience does she have?
She has 27 years of experience working with adults on life adjustments, parenting guidance, and related concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with licensure in Virginia and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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