Lori Matheson
Compassionate practical support for everyday family life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lori
Lori Matheson is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, depression, and life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping clients name what is hard and take small steps forward. Lori draws on 15 years of experience to offer steady, down-to-earth guidance for real-life problems.
In sessions she centers the client's priorities and strengths. She believes people know their own stories and helps them use existing resources to move toward their goals.
Background and approach
Lori encourages clear goals, doable actions, and honest conversations instead of quick fixes. Her approach mixes evidence-based techniques with a warm, client-centered stance. Lori uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice different behaviors.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build psychological flexibility. Mindfulness practices and attachment-informed ideas are woven into care when they fit a person’s needs. These tools help with emotional regulation, relationship patterns, and coping during transitions.
Lori works with a wide range of concerns that include ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, sleep problems, anger, and caregiver stress. She practices in Michigan and offers sessions in English. The tone in her work is encouraging, practical, and focused on what the client wants to change next.
How Lori brings proven methods to online family and parenting concerns
Lori commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clarify what matters most and teaches small, practical steps to live in line with those values even when emotions are strong. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and then practices new ways of thinking and acting that reduce stress and improve routines.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions collaborative and respectful. That approach emphasizes listening, validation, and pacing care around the client’s goals. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process, and Lori will work together with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, preferences, and goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility for busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit sessions around family routines, appointments, and work. Practical tools and exercises can be shared during or between sessions so progress continues outside the scheduled time.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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