Lori Truesdell

Lori Truesdell is an LCSW with 32 years of clinical experience based in Indiana. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Lori also focuses on loneliness, panic attacks, social anxiety, and questions about life purpose.

She keeps sessions straightforward and conversational. Lori uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thinking and practice different behaviors. She often uses light humor when appropriate to ease tense moments and make difficult topics easier to talk about.

In early sessions she helps people name the immediate problem and set small, practical steps. That might include breaking down overwhelming tasks, trying short behavioral experiments, or practicing breathing and grounding when panic starts. Lori explains techniques in plain language and checks they fit the person's daily life.

Over longer work she helps people reckon with loss, shifting roles, and uncertainty about what comes next. She supports finding values and interests that feel meaningful, and looks for ways to rebuild confidence after setbacks. Progress is paced to the person's comfort and needs.

Lori practices in Indiana and conducts sessions in English. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the online booking flow.

How CBT informs online sessions and practical benefits

CBT helps people spot thoughts that increase worry or low mood and then test different responses. In plain terms, this often means tracking thinking patterns, trying small behavioral experiments between sessions, and practicing skills that reduce panic and social anxiety. It’s focused work with clear, repeatable exercises.

The therapist frames choice of approach as a collaborative process. She will review how CBT fits a person’s concerns and adjust methods based on goals and preferences. Together the client and therapist decide which techniques to keep using and which to change.

Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. They can remove travel time, allow for shorter check-ins during a workday, or make it easier to meet when moving through life transitions. The biography does not list specific session formats; confirm current options before booking. Licensed professionals often use online work to focus on skill practice, behavioral experiments, and regular planning between meetings, which can help carry therapeutic work into everyday routines.