About Lori
Lori Matheson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and life changes. She draws on 15 years of clinical experience to support people through practical struggles like sleep problems, anger, relationship or intimacy concerns, and addiction-related issues. Lori speaks English and works with adults seeking clearer direction and steadier coping skills.
Her approach begins by listening and treating each person as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and build from their existing strengths. Lori uses straightforward methods so people can try new strategies between meetings and notice small changes quickly. She blends somatic ideas with cognitive and acceptance-based techniques to address both body sensations and thought patterns.
Attachment-based perspectives help when past relationship patterns affect current life. The work often includes short exercises in session and practical steps to practice at home. Lori has a background supporting people with grief, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, chronic illness and body image concerns.
She also helps with career questions, commitment worries, and coping after big disruptions. Her style is warm and steady, aiming to make therapy feel doable. To begin, clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
Lori uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time, and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How somatic and talk-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work attends to the body and physical sensations as part of emotional change, helping people notice tension and use grounding or breath techniques to manage stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns from the past so people can make different choices in close relationships and feel more supported.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try different methods, and adapt based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where the client’s preferences and comfort guide which tools are used.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through flexible formats. Video calls allow face-to-face contact for guided exercises, phone sessions provide a lower-tech option, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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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