- Attachment based work
- CBT techniques
- Narrative approaches
About Dorie
Dorie Scofield is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Missouri with 33 years of experience. She works with adults on emotional, relational, career, and spiritual concerns and lists relationship, family, grief, parenting, and young adult issues among her focuses.
She sees relationship and family struggles as connected to patterns that go back to early bonds. That viewpoint guides her work with attachment, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and adoption or foster care concerns. She also helps people facing anxiety, depression, anger, grief, and the stress of life transitions.
Sessions blend practical techniques and conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe difficult life stories and clarify values and goals.
Her background includes experience with parenting challenges, fatherhood issues, fertility and forgiveness work, and compassion fatigue. She has worked with people dealing with body image, commitment and control issues, and communication problems that affect daily life and relationships.
Clients can expect a direct, structured approach that includes problem-solving and clear steps to try between sessions. Dorie often focuses on rebuilding connection, improving communication, and strengthening coping skills so people can manage stress, pursue career choices, and move forward after loss or big change.
How attachment and CBT translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current interaction patterns. Online work can focus on recognizing those patterns in current relationships and building new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management and works well in talk-based sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together choose which methods to try first. That collaborative decision can shift as sessions reveal what helps most for your situation.
Confirm the options offered before booking, since the biography does not specify formats. Online therapy can make sessions easier to fit into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so clients can use an evening or a break between classes or shifts. It can also make it simpler to keep momentum between appointments by scheduling more frequent, brief conversations when that helps progress.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
33+ years
Listed in
Missouri
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps with relationship strain, family problems, grief, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, trauma and related issues like intimacy, anger, and stress.
How would she describe her therapy style?
She combines Family Systems perspectives with practical methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy to change patterns and reframe stories.
What is her clinical background?
She has 33 years of experience working with adults on relational, emotional, career, and spiritual concerns and has used play therapy and CBT techniques in prior work with younger clients.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Missouri.
Does she work in other languages or accept international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Confirm the current session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats here.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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