About Lori
Lori Parrs is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with eight years of counseling experience. She has worked in a range of settings and helps people facing eating concerns, addiction, mood problems, and life transitions. Lori focuses on practical change and meets people where they are in the process of change.
Her work often centers on eating and food-related issues such as compulsive overeating, exercise and food addiction, body image and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also helps people managing anxiety, depression, trauma or abuse, and addictive behaviors. Lori listens for what matters most to each person and adapts her approach accordingly. Sessions tend to be warm and action-oriented.
She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered approaches, and other strategies to support real-world goals. People can expect clear steps, skills to practice between sessions, and attention to their personal values and strengths. Lori pays attention to patterns that show up in relationships and daily habits, including attachment and codependency issues, communication problems, and caregiver stress.
She also addresses grief, anger, career concerns, and navigating divorce or separation when those topics come up. She works with people who want to change behaviors and feel better in daily life. Lori supports clients through setbacks and small wins.
Her practice is focused on helping people build useful tools and steady momentum toward the life they want.
Approaches that guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking small, committed actions toward them. It helps when someone feels stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. It is useful for mood, anxiety, and many daily struggles. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experience and aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can explore their goals and feelings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques that match goals, and adjust the plan when something is not working. Clients and the therapist work together to choose methods that fit the person’s needs, values, and pace.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face when screen time fits their schedule. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited or a quicker option during a work break. Live chat and messaging are helpful for shorter updates, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English