About Lora
Lora Newman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who combines counseling and business leadership coaching. She brings 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, work challenges, and life transitions. Lora writes plainly and focuses on clear, practical steps in sessions.
Her style is warm, direct, and interactive. Sessions are meant to meet people where they are and move at a comfortable pace. She uses coaching tools alongside therapeutic techniques to address things like time management, workplace strain, and money-related stress.
How Lora works
Lora also works with trauma and abuse concerns and offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, for people who want to process difficult memories. Mindfulness practices are used to help clients stay present and reduce overwhelming thoughts. She frames useful goals and small experiments clients can try between meetings.
People looking to clarify life purpose, address control issues, or repair relationship patterns will find a practical focus in sessions. She also pays attention to family of origin matters that influence current choices. Career concerns and self-esteem work are treated with concrete steps and coaching-style accountability.
Lora practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English. She blends counseling and coaching to help people build momentum, whether they need short-term skill building or longer-term personal work. Her approach aims to make change feel manageable and real.
Lora lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Lora works with
The areas below are the ones Lora selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client's perspective, helping people feel heard and guiding them to find their own solutions. It is useful for stress, self-esteem, and navigating life changes.EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories and reduce the emotional charge they carry. It can support work on abuse and other traumatic experiences when that method is appropriate.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process includes checking in and adjusting the plan over time.
Online sessions make it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and allow for consistent follow-up while maintaining a therapeutic focus.
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