Lori Burns, LMHC

Lori Burns is a licensed mental health counselor with 26 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship trouble, grief, and parenting challenges. She writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person. People turn to her when they need steady support and clear steps forward.

Lori focuses on understanding daily pressures and the small patterns that keep people stuck. She pays attention to attachment concerns, caregiver stress, communication problems, and issues that can follow divorce or separation. She also addresses forgiveness, guilt, shame, life purpose, midlife transitions, process and sex-related addictions, women's issues, workplace strain, and the concerns of young adults.

Her style is compassionate and practical. Lori helps clients notice how thoughts and habits shape feelings, then works with them to try different ways of responding. She honors personal values and, when relevant, integrates faith-informed perspectives into conversations at the client’s request.

Clients can expect a steady, nonjudgmental presence and help turning insight into everyday changes. She aims to make therapy usable between sessions with clear ideas to practice and small goals to track.

Based in Indiana, Lori brings decades of clinical experience while keeping sessions focused on what matters now. Prospective clients who want to explore caregiving stress or parenting strain may find her background relevant when choosing support.

How Lori’s techniques translate to online therapy

Many of Lori’s work habits draw on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on patterns, behavior, and meaning. Cognitive-focused methods look at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior, and help people practice different responses to reduce anxiety and manage stress. Attachment-informed ideas attend to relationship patterns so clients can improve communication and feel steadier in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lori will listen to a person’s goals and try different techniques together to see what fits. She involves clients in choosing steps and adjusting the plan based on what helps in everyday life.

The practical benefits of online therapy include saving travel time, fitting sessions into a work break, and using a format that may make regular check-ins easier to keep. Confirm the currently offered session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online work can make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions and apply new skills where life actually happens.