About Dorie
Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Missouri. She brings 33 years of clinical experience to conversations about relationships, parenting, grief, stress, anxiety, and trauma. Her style is practical and direct, aimed at helping people find clearer steps forward.
She centers her work on attachment ideas and family systems, connecting patterns in relationships to current struggles. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
How Dorie works
Narrative work helps people reframe their stories and regain a sense of agency. Dorie has substantial experience with a wide range of concerns. These include intimacy-related issues, communication problems, anger, self-esteem, depression, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses adoption and foster care topics, blended family challenges, attachment issues, and forgiveness work. Her approach with parents focuses on practical skills for raising children and managing family conflict. For those facing loss or major life change, she offers structured ways to cope and rebuild.
Dorie blends short-term strategies with deeper, relational work depending on what each person needs. People who choose her can expect frank, supportive conversations and clear next steps. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and increase confidence in decision making.
She uses techniques suited to each situation rather than a single formula.
Dorie lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Dorie works with
The areas below are the ones Dorie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How attachment and CBT translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. Online sessions use conversation and focused questions to notice interaction habits and build safer, more reliable ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to relieve anxiety, low mood, or stress. It often involves short exercises between sessions and clear skill practice to change daily routines.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and symptoms before recommending methods. Together they review what helps, try techniques, and adjust the plan as progress is seen.
Online formats make regular therapy more flexible. Video calls let therapists observe tone and interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, live chat suits short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep continuity of care when life gets hectic.
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