Lori Mcdunn, LPC-MHSP

Lori Mcdunn is a licensed professional counselor with a decade of experience helping people cope with trauma, anxiety, and relationship strain. She practices from Tennessee and uses practical approaches to help clients find steadier ground. Lori holds the LPC-MHSP credential and has a background in counseling and human services.

Lori focuses on clear, doable steps rather than jargon. She listens for what matters and suggests manageable skills to reduce worry, improve sleep, and ease relationship tensions. Many people come for help with grief, depression, addictive patterns, or identity and intimacy concerns.

Her work often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used when a person wants to build values-based goals and handle painful feelings without getting stuck. Client-centered techniques help people feel heard while planning next steps.

Lori also integrates some dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when needed. She attends to trauma and abuse histories with care and supports people working through shame, abandonment, or caregiving stress. She does not provide letters for leave of absence.

Sessions are practical and paced to each person. Lori aims to help people make small changes that add up to better daily functioning. She welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.

How Lori Uses CBT, ACT, and Client-Centered Work Online

Lori often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice thinking patterns that worsen anxiety or depression, then practice new ways of responding to those thoughts. CBT is useful for problems like worry, insomnia, and unhelpful reactions in relationships.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult feelings show up. ACT can help with long-standing avoidance, grief, and living with persistent symptoms.

Client-centered work forms the heart of her approach by offering attentive listening and gentle reflection so clients feel understood while they try new skills. Together the therapist and client decide which methods fit best based on needs and goals.

Online therapy with Lori is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for a fuller conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Chat or messaging can support brief check-ins, coach-style guidance, or layering support between real-time sessions.

She approaches treatment collaboratively, helping clients test what works and adjust over time so therapy fits real life and daily schedules.