- Years in practice
- 26
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- New York, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Lorie
Lorie Boyd is a licensed mental health counselor with 26 years of experience in New York. She works with adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or the fallout from past trauma. Parents looking for guidance around parenting challenges will find straightforward, practical help.
Her style is warm and direct, focused on clear steps you can try between sessions. She uses a mix of client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people make changes that stick.
Background and approach
That means listening carefully to what matters to you and then testing small, realistic adjustments to daily routines and thoughts. Sessions often include concrete strategies for managing anxiety, improving communication, and reducing unhelpful patterns like codependency or avoidance. Her background includes long experience supporting people facing discrimination, multicultural concerns, and first responder stress.
She also helps with grief, intimacy-related issues, addictions, and challenges tied to family of origin problems. Lorie pays attention to how social context and past harm shape current struggles. In sessions she emphasizes building self-compassion and stronger coping tools.
Parents may be offered ways to reduce household tension, respond to behavior calmly, and balance self-care with caregiving. Therapy aims for steady progress through achievable goals rather than quick fixes. Lorie holds the LMHC credential and draws on practical approaches to help clients navigate career stress, bipolar and ADHD related concerns, and relationship struggles.
She offers work focused on skill-building, clearer communication, and reclaiming a sense of agency.
What Lorie works with
Everything Lorie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Lorie helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- ADHD
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Approaches Lorie lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy begins by prioritizing the person in the room. It focuses on active listening, empathy, and following your lead so you can name what matters and move at your pace. This approach is useful for people needing emotional support, help with self-love, or guidance when discrimination and cultural concerns shape stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It uses practical exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking and to build routines that reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT can be especially helpful for managing panic, social anxiety, and low mood with concrete skills.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust as progress and needs change. You and the therapist work together to find what actually helps.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls make it possible to meet face-to-face when travel or schedules are tight. Phone sessions and live chat give lower-bandwidth options for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats let people fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving routines while using client-centered and CBT tools.
Questions people ask about Lorie
What issues does Lorie commonly help people with?
She assists adults coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, bipolar and ADHD related issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to produce clear, actionable steps and supportive reflection.
What kind of experience does she bring?
She has 26 years of experience working with people facing multicultural concerns, first responder stress, social anxiety, and recovery from sexual assault and domestic violence.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is an LMHC licensed in New York and practices with a focus on clients in that region.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the US work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer online?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How are fees and getting started handled?
Cost varies with location and availability and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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