About Lori
Lori Wilson uses a client-centered style alongside cognitive behavioral tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who brings 20 years of practice to conversations about mood, relationships, and life changes. Lori speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Lori’s background includes work with people in residential and outpatient settings addressing substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns.
How Lori works
She has supported clients through pregnancy and postpartum recovery programs and has experience running individual and group sessions for trauma, anxiety, depression, and addiction. That hands-on work informs how she plans care now. In sessions she blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful patterns and test new ways of coping.
Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck or unsure about change. She frames goals into small, achievable steps and checks progress together. Lori helps with a wide range of concerns including grief, self-esteem, panic, mood disorders, process and substance addictions, anger, and issues tied to identity and relationships.
She also addresses problems like hoarding, isolation, guilt, and forgiveness in straightforward terms. Practical tools and steady support are central to her approach. People can expect clear talk, focused skills practice, and collaborative planning.
Lori draws on two decades of social work training and clinical practice to offer care that prioritizes what each person needs next.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
How Lori’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding where a person is now. The therapist reflects concerns back and helps the person set their own goals, which can be helpful for building trust and clarity around next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. It often involves short exercises and experiments between sessions to try new ways of coping with anxiety, mood shifts, or sleep and eating problems.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel unsure about change. It uses gentle questions and reflection to discover personal reasons for change and to turn those reasons into small plans that feel doable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lori will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adjust methods together. The plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, steps between sessions, or ongoing encouragement without a full appointment.
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A practical next step
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