Lawrence Story, LMFT

Lawrence Story is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Texas with 36 years of clinical experience. He blends practical coaching with talk therapy to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and other life challenges. His style is direct and down-to-earth, aimed at making change feel doable.

He uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of acting. He also draws on client-centered methods to build respectful conversation and DBT skills for managing strong emotions and impulses. Mindfulness and existential perspectives appear in sessions when clients want to clarify values, meaning, or purpose.

Lawrence writes, teaches, and leads workshops on wellness and recovery. He has held executive and consulting roles in health organizations and has experience presenting to groups and businesses. Those leadership roles inform how he structures sessions and sets practical goals with people.

Sessions focus on real-life problems such as relationship tensions, parenting strain, work stress, substance use concerns, body image, and ongoing issues like ADHD or bipolar mood challenges. He often uses examples from everyday life to make strategies concrete and immediately useful.

People work with him to set short-term goals or to build longer-term coping skills. He aims to design clear plans that match each person’s needs and rhythm. Most work involves talk, skill practice, and tracking progress between sessions.

How Lawrence blends practical approaches for online care

Lawrence commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors that reduce anxiety, improve mood, or change patterns of substance use. He also works from a client-centered stance that focuses on respectful listening and helping the person set their own goals. A DBT-informed approach is used when emotion regulation, impulsivity, or strong reactions get in the way of daily functioning.

Choosing the right approach is treated as a team effort. Lawrence will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try strategies together and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so they feel relevant and manageable.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill coaching, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions, offering flexibility for busy schedules.