About Lori
Lori Burns is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 26 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, and parenting struggles in a straightforward, practical way. Lori uses a compassionate, listening-first approach.
Sessions are calm and focused on real-life steps clients can try between meetings. She pays attention to how emotions, relationships, and life demands interact so people can feel more steady day to day.
Background and approach
Over more than two decades in practice, Lori has worked with issues such as attachment concerns, caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, and guilt and shame. She also supports people facing process addictions, sexual addiction, women's issues, workplace challenges, and questions young adults may bring. Lori blends proven therapeutic techniques into a personalized plan.
She respects each person’s values and life story and aims to help clients make decisions that fit their goals. Her method is practical and goal-oriented, not filled with jargon. Based in Indiana, Lori offers sessions in English.
People connect with her when they want steady guidance for emotional strain, clearer communication in relationships, or help navigating big life transitions.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Two evidence-based techniques commonly used in Lori's work are focused skills practice and emotion-focused talk. Focused skills practice teaches specific coping tools such as breathing, grounding, and communication scripts to manage anxiety, stress, and workplace strain. Emotion-focused talk helps name and map feelings connected to relationships, grief, or shame so choices feel clearer and less overwhelming.Another useful approach blends practical problem solving with exploration of values and life goals. That method helps people facing midlife questions, parenting pressures, or decisions about separation by combining concrete planning with reflection on what matters most.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lori works with each person to find techniques that fit their goals, comfort level, and life demands. She adjusts methods over time so the plan stays relevant as challenges change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling flexible. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, chat can work for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, short-form contact between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English