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Online therapist

Lora Newman

Trusted counselor and leadership coach

Credentials
LPC
Experience
17 years
Licensed in
Missouri
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Lora

Lora Newman is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She also blends mental fitness and leadership coaching into her work to support practical goals like time management and workplace challenges. Lora practices in Missouri and communicates in English.

Her sessions are warm, direct, and interactive. She focuses on what is happening now and helps clients move past blocks that get in the way of daily functioning or work performance.

Background and approach

Lora uses a mix of counseling and coaching tools tailored to each person’s needs. She often combines talk-based approaches with EMDR, which can help when past events keep affecting current life. Lora also uses mindfulness practices to build calm and concentration in stressful moments.

Her goal is to create clear, manageable steps clients can try between meetings. Lora works with concerns such as relationships, family issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, career questions, money stress, and finding life purpose. She also addresses control issues and family of origin topics when they come up as part of a client’s story.

Sessions are solution-oriented but grounded in each person’s values and choices. Lora aims to support and empower clients so they can face rough patches with practical strategies and steady guidance.

Online approaches that fit real life

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person where they are. It helps clients feel heard and supported so they can make choices that match their values and goals. Existential Therapy looks at questions about purpose, meaning, and responsibility, useful when someone is rethinking career direction or life priorities.

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a targeted method used to reduce the ongoing impact of distressing memories. It can be helpful for people who find past events keep disrupting work or relationships. Mindfulness techniques are often added to teach simple ways to lower stress and improve focus during busy days.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lora will collaborate with clients to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She mixes counseling and coaching tools and adjusts the plan based on how things are going.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a workweek or to continue progress while traveling. The variety also lets clients pick what feels most useful for check-ins, practical coaching, or EMDR work.

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.

Existential Therapy

Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.

EMDR

A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Lora address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, career and workplace problems, money stress, and questions about life purpose.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is warm, direct, and interactive. Sessions focus on practical steps and real-world changes rather than long, abstract discussions.
How long has she been practicing?
Lora has 17 years of experience as a licensed professional counselor working with a range of personal and workplace concerns.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, holding Missouri license number MO LPC 2005009390, and she practices in Missouri.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and getting started work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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