Lori Smith, LPC

Lori Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Arizona with 11 years of experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Lori also addresses eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar mood patterns, ADHD, and codependency.

Her sessions focus on how thoughts, feelings, and behavior connect. She uses practical, evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior approaches. Lori also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and emotionally focused work to address painful patterns in relationships and self-image.

Lori describes therapy as a place to identify how past experiences shape present responses. She pays attention to roots like abandonment, attachment struggles, dissociation, and trauma-related symptoms. With that understanding, she helps people notice habits that keep them stuck and practice different ways of coping.

She combines several methods rather than following one single model. That makes it possible to shift between short-term tools and deeper work depending on the issue and the person’s goals. Sessions include talking through current problems, learning skills to manage distress, and examining old beliefs that affect choices now.

Lori explains things in straightforward terms and includes education in sessions so people can use what they learn between meetings. People who are ready to look at patterns such as people-pleasing, control issues, or dealing with someone’s substance use may find her approach practical and direct.

Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions