Dr. Lori Dougherty

Dr. Lori Dougherty is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Colorado with ten years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting pressures, and questions about life purpose. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use right away to manage hard moments and make clearer choices about what matters next.

Her approach draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR, and mindfulness. In sessions she listens closely and treats the client as the expert on their life. She asks questions to clarify what the person wants to change and then shows concrete skills to try between meetings.

Dougherty encourages looking at how patterns in relationships and family of origin affect current choices. She helps people notice impulses, control issues, jealousy, codependency, and communication problems. For those struggling with substance use or relapse, she blends motivational interviewing and behavioral methods to address drug and alcohol addiction.

Therapy also addresses separation and divorce, blended family concerns, abandonment wounds, guilt and shame, and post-traumatic stress. When trauma is a focus, EMDR and mindfulness exercises are available as tools to reduce disturbing memories and bodily reactivity.

Her style is straightforward and goal-oriented. She helps clients set achievable steps, practice new reactions, and evaluate what works. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the See online therapy options button.

How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client. It helps people feel understood and then build on their own strengths to make changes, which can be useful for stress, relationship concerns, and life purpose questions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches practical skills such as thought records and behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. These tools can be practiced between sessions and reviewed remotely.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help with impulsivity, control issues, and intense relationship reactions and are often taught with role plays and worksheet practice.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust techniques as progress is observed.

If you plan to use online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists can assign between-session practices, review skill use, and follow progress remotely to help people move forward without major schedule disruption.