Hi! I'm a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina. I received my Masters degree from the Liberty University and have been practicing for 6 years. I help adults of all ages struggling with trauma, depression, anxiety, marital and family issue and burnout become the best versions of themselves. I provide a holistic, positive, faith-based (Christian) approach integrating modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Gottman Method, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing and Person Centered Therapy. I am currently completing my training to become a Board Certified Christian Counselor.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions, then dive into the specific challenges you're facing. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions. I will tell you about how I approach therapy and different modalities so you can know what to expect from me. I want my client to feel comfortable, safe and cared for.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Having worked with many clients for the past 6 years, I've developed a tried-and-true playbook for helping you identify the root cause of your challenges and create a tailored plan that leads to measurable progress. I strive to create rapport and trust with my clients so they feel they can be authentic and vulnerable and I promise to do the same.
About Lori Thompson
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Attachment-based
Treatment is based on Attachment Theory, meaning that how children attach to their caregivers in their formative years will influence the way they attach in relationships later as adults. This theory helps create a way of understanding and identifying unhealthy relationships in adult life and empowers the client to move toward a secure attachment style.
Christian Counseling
Christian Counseling integrates both empirical modes of clinical theory with biblically sound principles and truths.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT helps the client identify negative and irrational patterns of thinking about themselves and the world and helps to reframe this thinking to become more logical, therefore changing the sequential negative and unhelpful feelings and behaviors of the person.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing is typically used to address and help a client who has experienced traumatic events and has associated environmental triggers and core beliefs that are unhelpful, frightful, or disturbing. This is done by identifying the triggers and thoughts, focusing on the memory, and incorporating a set of eye movements to decrease the disturbing feelings associated with the memory.
Trauma Informed Care
As a trauma specialist, the therapist will work toward screening and incorporating trauma-informed research and intervention to help the client learn how to calm themselves and utilize coping skills to help the body and mind heal holistically.