Meet Lori

Lori came to counseling the way many of the best counselors do — through her own grief. In the span of two years, she lost her parents, a dear neighborhood friend, and her mother-in-law. The weight of that season could have broken her. Instead, it led her to the kind of healing that changed everything — and eventually to the conviction that she wanted to give back what had been given to her.

Her path to IFS began with a single experiential exercise. She walked out feeling lighter than she had in years, and she knew — this was something different. When she discovered she could bring her Catholic faith directly into the work, inviting Jesus and Mary into sessions alongside her clients’ parts, it became something more than therapy. It became a way of encountering God’s love in the places that had been most hidden and most hurting.

Lori works with a calm, steady presence that comes from years of raising a family through real crises without panicking. She connects especially well with those navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, and grief — people who feel stuck in fight-or-flight or complete shutdown. She meets them exactly there, and she walks with them toward something lighter.

One of her favorite things to say to clients who are afraid to begin: it’s okay to do it afraid. Courage is often where the deepest healing starts.

Outside the therapy room, Lori is a gardener — the kind who loses herself for hours getting dirty and sweaty in her perennial beds, and considers the blooms in mid-summer entirely worth it.

Lori is provisionally licensed in West Virginia and Tennessee and sees clients via telehealth.