About Lori
Lori Brinkley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She practices in North Carolina and helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Lori also supports those facing parenting challenges, career stress, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues tied to identity and intimacy.
She takes a warm, direct style in sessions. Lori uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness. She also draws on client-centered and solution-focused work to help people find practical next steps.
How Lori works
Humor is often part of sessions to make hard conversations easier. Lori helps people untangle patterns that cause pain. She will point out unhelpful thinking, teach coping skills, and work on healthier ways to communicate.
When needed she is direct and challenges stuck behaviors, while still offering validation and support. People come for many reasons beyond the headline concerns. Lori works with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, first responder issues, and navigating divorce or separation.
She also addresses guilt, shame, impulsivity, infidelity, and emptiness. Her sessions blend practical skill-building with attention to emotions and personal values. Lori aims to help clients set small goals, practice new behaviors, and notice meaningful change.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles and schedules.
Lori lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Lori works with
The areas below are the ones Lori selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Lori’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. It means sessions start where the client is and aim to build on strengths and values to guide change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, brings skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, helpful for impulsivity, anger, and relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Lori will ask about goals, what has or hasn't worked before, and how someone prefers to learn. Together they test methods and adjust the plan as progress is seen.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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