Lori Mcdunn
Practical, trauma-informed counseling for adults
- Credentials
- LPC-MHSP
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lori
Lori Mcdunn is a licensed professional counselor with a decade of experience. She practices in Tennessee and holds the LPC-MHSP credential. Lori focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and other life changes.
She prefers straightforward, strengths-based work. Lori listens to a person’s story and helps them identify practical steps forward. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve day-to-day functioning.
Her background includes focused work with trauma and sexual assault survivorship.
Background and approach
She also attends to issues like parenting stress, addiction, sleep and eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. Lori brings experience with mood differences including bipolar disorder and co-occurring conditions. Lori uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs.
She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, client-centered methods, and existential ideas. Those tools shape how she helps people manage thoughts, build skills, and clarify values. Sessions are offered in English and available to clients in Tennessee and internationally.
Lori works with adults and with a range of presenting concerns listed in her profile. Her style is direct, empathetic, and focused on practical change. If someone wants to begin, she asks them to complete the site intake and schedule a time.
That first step helps match goals and plan next sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Lori often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and learning practical skills to change behaviors and mood, useful for depression, anxiety, and coping with change.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lori works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they try techniques, see what works, and adjust the plan based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy provides flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, provide different ways to communicate, and allow work to continue when in-person meetings are not possible. Licensed professionals can use these tools to teach coping skills, offer support after difficult events, and keep therapy consistent while adapting to each person’s needs.
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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
Next step
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