Doriece Choy
Practical, strength-based therapy for real life
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Doriece
Doriece Choy is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, strengths-based therapy to help people face hard moments. She focuses on building confidence and finding hope in everyday life. Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative, with simple goals set each week to make steady progress.
Dori meets clients where they are and listens first. She helps people name what they are feeling and then choose small steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and focused on real-world changes rather than abstract talk. Her work addresses stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and addictions. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting concerns, grief, anger, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focus areas include attachment issues, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, family of origin problems, codependency, communication difficulties, and related concerns. With 13 years of experience as a therapist and licensure as an LCSW, Doriece draws on therapies that help people connect and change. She commonly uses attachment-based methods, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical skills, and emotionally-focused techniques.
These approaches are mixed to match each person’s needs. Sessions are offered from Illinois in English and are available to international clients. Dori aims to make therapy flexible and approachable so people can fit support into busy lives.
Online approaches that fit busy family lives
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions. It can be useful when relationship patterns, abandonment concerns, or attachment issues are part of what feels stuck.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and empathy. The therapist follows the client's lead, helping people feel heard and safe enough to name their challenges and try small changes.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Doriece will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That choice is made together and can change as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. These formats make it easier to get regular support from Illinois or abroad and to use therapy around work, school, and family routines. The goal is practical help you can use between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Doriece
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