Lori Brinkley

Lori Brinkley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of practice helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and major life shifts. She brings a warm, down-to-earth presence to sessions and mixes practical skills with honest conversation. Lori often works with parents, adoptees, busy professionals, and people facing relationship or identity challenges. She mentions adoption and foster care among her focus areas and supports individuals processing related wounds and questions.

Clients can expect a direct but nurturing style. Lori uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to help people spot unhelpful patterns and try new responses. She balances challenge with support and often adds humor to ease difficult conversations.

Her work covers a broad range of concerns including trauma and abuse, parenting and co-parenting after divorce, compassion fatigue, career stress, and intimacy issues. She also helps with abandonment, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and first responder stress. Lori describes a practical, skill-based approach that centers on the person's goals.

Outside the office she is a mother, outdoor enthusiast, and traveler who values nature and simple joys. That perspective shows up in how she encourages clients to find small, manageable steps toward change. Prospective clients who prefer straightforward feedback and hands-on tools may find her approach a good match.

Background and approach: With decades of clinical experience, Lori blends Client-Centered care with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques. She emphasizes validating each person's experience, making connections between patterns and behavior, and practicing new skills in daily life. Her goal is to help people reduce overwhelm and build routines that fit their real lives.

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