Lori Gordon
Practical, compassionate support for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lori
Lori Gordon is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and listens first to understand each person's situation. Her style aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone worried about starting therapy.
With 16 years of experience, Lori draws on several proven methods to create a plan that fits each person. She adapts sessions to individual needs and pays attention to emotions, behavior, and goals.
Background and approach
That means sessions may include skill-building, exploring difficult feelings, or changing unhelpful thought patterns. She has worked with people facing trauma and abuse as well as challenges around intimacy, self-esteem, grief, and parenting. Lori also addresses issues such as sleep problems, anger, career stress, and ADHD-related concerns.
Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, family of origin problems, and coping with chronic illness or loss. Clients can expect a respectful and compassionate tone in sessions. Lori aims to tailor conversation and treatment plans to what matters most to each person.
She practices in Missouri and holds an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her work is informed by approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. This mix lets her match tools to problems such as communication breakdowns, commitment worries, or feelings of emptiness.
Parents and caregivers seeking help around family and parenting matters will find practical strategies and emotional support. Lori encourages small steps and clear goals to make progress feel achievable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and gradually changing behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in relationships to improve connection and closeness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lori will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That means trying options, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats allow people to fit sessions into busy lives, continue work while traveling within the region, or use shorter check-ins when that suits the goal. The variety of options helps match the way a person prefers to communicate and stay engaged.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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