Lorey Simons
Collaborative, practical care for life’s challenges
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lorey
Lorey Simons is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) who uses a client-centered approach in her work. She emphasizes listening without judgment and helps people take an active role in their care. That collaborative style frames how she builds goals and plans with each person she sees.
Simons blends practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and solution-focused methods. She teaches skills like journaling and noticing thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Those tools aim to reduce anxiety, manage strong emotions, and improve day-to-day coping. With 12 years of experience, she has worked with people affected by trauma and the anxiety that often follows. She also addresses concerns such as stress, grief, sleep problems, intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem.
Her practice includes attention to family-related challenges and parenting matters where those come up. Lorey approaches sensitive topics with openness and respect, including gender and sexual identity concerns. She uses motivational interviewing when people need help clarifying values and making changes.
Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings. Her work is grounded in simple, actionable strategies and a steady, nonjudgmental presence. Simons offers therapy in English and provides online formats that fit different schedules.
She practices in Ohio as LPCC OH E1100539.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person to guide their own progress. It emphasizes empathy, respect, and working at the client’s pace to set meaningful goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small experiments to test new beliefs and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, panic, and depression because it gives concrete tools to practice between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills to manage intense feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she will recommend techniques to try and adjust them based on how they feel and work in everyday life.
Online sessions make using these approaches more flexible. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions and live chat offer shorter or more frequent check-ins, while text-based messaging can help with ongoing coaching and reminders. These options let people fit therapy into busy routines and try tools in the moments when they matter most.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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