About Dorrie
Dorrie Lombardi Chandler helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and relationship struggles. She also supports those facing parenting challenges, career strain, grief, sleep problems, and issues related to identity and sexuality. Dorrie is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, and brings 19 years of experience to her work.
Dorrie uses warm, empathetic listening to build trust quickly. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and adapts conversations to meet individual needs.
How Dorrie works
Sessions aim to be calm, direct, and focused on practical steps that feel doable between meetings. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered care, dialectical skills, and emotionally focused ways of relating. These methods are used to reduce intense feelings, shift unhelpful thinking, and improve communication and emotional connection.
EMDR is listed among approaches she uses when appropriate. Dorrie works with a wide variety of concerns including ADHD, bipolar mood issues, compassion fatigue, codependency, attachment and abandonment struggles, body image, and post-traumatic stress. She pays attention to patterns that keep people stuck and helps them build new skills to move forward.
Therapy is collaborative and goal-oriented. Clients can expect regular check-ins on progress and practical tools to practice at home. Dorrie aims to leave people feeling more confident, less overwhelmed, and better prepared for life’s next steps.
Dorrie lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Dorrie works with
The areas below are the ones Dorrie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them control actions. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It teaches practical techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits, useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy with this clinician can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives while keeping consistent progress.
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