- Years in practice
- 33
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Grief
About Dorie
Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 33 years of experience. She offers practical, straightforward support for parents and adults facing relationship and family stress. Short conversations in session focus on what matters now and what can change next.
She helps people navigate parenting challenges, grief, anxiety, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Sessions also address self-esteem, anger, intimacy concerns, career questions, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, blended families, and fatherhood concerns. Dorie uses ideas from attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral approaches to make therapy concrete. She also brings narrative and trauma-focused ways of working to help people reframe difficult stories and process painful events.
Those methods are used to build clearer patterns and practical steps at home. Her style is collaborative and direct. She will listen, ask focused questions, and suggest doable experiments to try between visits.
For parents this can mean new ways to respond to behavior, set boundaries, or rebuild routines. Having worked across ages and family situations, she draws on varied tools including play-informed techniques for younger kids and cognitive strategies for older teens and adults. Many people come for help with communication problems, family of origin issues, or decisions about separation and forgiveness.
The work aims to make daily life more manageable and relationships more connected.
What Dorie works with
Everything Dorie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Dorie helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dorie lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate to online parenting support
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape reactions and relationships. It helps people notice patterns with partners and children and learn new ways to respond that build connection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches clear skills to manage anxiety, change unhelpful thinking, and test different behaviors with concrete homework.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, what feels useful, and what they prefer. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan as needed so the approach fits the situation and the family rhythm.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video lets people read facial cues and practice conversations, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on the go, and messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to meet during school breaks, work lunches, or when in-person visits are difficult.
Questions people ask about Dorie
What concerns does this therapist address?
Dorie focuses on relationship and family matters, parenting, grief, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, anger, career issues, and coping with life changes. She also works with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and blended family issues, and fatherhood questions.
How would you describe the therapy style?
Her approach blends attachment-based, cognitive behavioral, narrative, and trauma-focused methods into practical, step-by-step work. Sessions aim to clarify patterns, reframe difficult stories, and set small experiments to try between meetings.
What is her professional background?
She has 33 years of clinical experience working with adults, teens, children, and caregiving people on family and parenting topics. Her experience includes work with play-informed techniques and CBT methods for younger clients.
Where is the therapist licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, licensed in Missouri and practices with that credential in that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered online?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different scheduling needs and communication preferences.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
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