Lois Plock, LCSW

Lois Plock is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing addiction, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. She brings 11 years of experience and a straightforward, compassionate style that aims to make difficult conversations easier to start. Lois uses practical methods to help people manage overwhelming thoughts and feelings. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build meaningful action despite hard emotions. She also uses client-centered and emotion-focused ideas to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities. Her background includes work in residential addiction treatment and intensive outpatient programs. That experience shaped a down-to-earth approach to crisis moments, relapse risk, and rebuilding day-to-day routines. Lois has led support groups, taught life skills, and done speaking engagements. Those roles strengthened her skill in helping people learn new coping tools and stay accountable to change. She describes herself as supportive and direct. Sessions tend to mix practical skill-building, values-based goal setting, and coaching around communication and impulse control. Lois works with spiritual concerns when clients want that included. Clients can expect a collaborative plan that focuses on small, achievable steps. Lois practices in Florida and holds licensure in North Carolina and Florida as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW.

CBT, ACT, and Collaborative Care Online

Lois uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily habits that get in the way of feeling better. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and commit to small steps, even when emotions are strong. ACT can be helpful for stress, grief, and situations where avoidance has become a problem. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lois will talk about different methods, listen to a person’s goals, and tailor a plan that fits their needs and preferences. That collaborative decision helps shape what a course of sessions looks like. Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps when someone prefers writing between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to attend regularly and use therapy techniques in everyday life.