About Lori
Lori Matheson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan who focuses on practical help for daily struggles. She speaks plain language and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for people under stress or facing change. Lori helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, parenting strains, and the ripple effects of life transitions.
She also supports those managing ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma, sleeping problems, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
How Lori works
Sessions often center on what feels most urgent to the person in front of her. Her approach combines grounded, evidence-based ideas with a warm, person-centered stance. Lori uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and ACT and mindfulness tools to build valued action and present-moment awareness.
Attachment-informed work is available when relationship patterns matter to a concern. In session she listens for strengths and practical steps. Conversations include skill practice, goal-setting, and checking what actually works between meetings.
Lori describes therapy as a collaborative effort where the client’s goals guide the pace and focus. She brings 15 years of clinical experience in a range of issues, from caregiver stress and chronic illness to career and self-esteem concerns. Lori works in English and sees people located in Michigan.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair a person with her schedule and preferred session format.
Lori lists 9 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
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values while accepting uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and getting through difficult life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to reframe unhelpful thoughts and build healthier habits, which is useful for worry, low mood, and sleep problems.
Attachment-based ideas help people recognize patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions. This can be helpful when relationship dynamics, intimacy, or communication are part of the concern.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lori will collaborate with each person to match methods to goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in week-to-week sessions. She adjusts tools over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can use the format that best matches their schedule and day-to-day needs.
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