- Years in practice
- 10
- Credentials
- LPC-MHSP
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Lori
Lori Mcdunn is a licensed professional counselor with mental health service provider status, bringing ten years of clinical experience in Tennessee. She works with adults on a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, grief, and trauma. Lori takes a straightforward, strengths-focused approach that helps people find more calm and clearer choices in daily life.
Her background includes work with people facing addiction, sleep and eating concerns, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and ADHD.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with major life changes, career stress, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue. Lori pays attention to how past wounds like abandonment or attachment problems shape present behavior. In sessions she blends practical strategies with listening.
Clients can expect a focus on skills they can try between meetings and gentle reflection on patterns that keep them stuck. The therapist uses methods drawn from cognitive and acceptance-based therapies alongside client-centered work to tailor support to each person. Lori is comfortable addressing trauma and sexual assault survivorship and attends to religious trauma when it arises.
She emphasizes a nonjudgmental stance and will work to help someone lessen shame and make different choices that match their values. She offers online care in multiple formats and accepts international clients. Lori holds an M.Ed in Counseling and Human Services and uses her ten years of experience to guide practical, person-focused therapy.
What Lori works with
Everything Lori lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Lori helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lori lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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 guide online parenting and trauma work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and committed action. It helps people notice painful thoughts without letting those thoughts dictate behavior and supports small changes that align with what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, mood, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy centers on empathic listening and the client's own goals, offering a respectful space to make sense of feelings and choices.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Lori will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, mixing strategies as needed. That shared decision-making lets sessions focus on concrete steps that feel workable and meaningful for the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing tracking and brief support between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around parenting, work, or other commitments.
Questions people ask about Lori
What kinds of concerns does Lori address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting, grief, addictions, sleep and eating problems, and related concerns.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Lori uses a strengths-focused, straightforward style that combines practical skills with reflective conversation. Sessions emphasize tools to try between meetings and attention to patterns that maintain problems.
What is Lori's professional background?
She has ten years of clinical experience and holds a Master of Education in Counseling and Human Services while pursuing further doctoral study in clinical sexology.
Where is Lori licensed and based?
Her credential is Tennessee LPC-MHSP and her practice is located in Tennessee.
Which languages and international options are offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does pricing work for therapy?
Cost varies by location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the process to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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