Lori Gieseler, LCSW

Lori Gieseler is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and trauma. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Lori aims to meet people where they are and help them build kinder habits toward themselves.

Her approach is warm and interactive. She uses client-centered methods that start with listening and reflective questions. Lori also incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses.

Clients can expect sessions that are respectful and tailored to their needs. Lori works with adults and adolescents and has supported people coping with mood shifts, relationship strain, and difficult life changes. She also has experience addressing issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, and infidelity.

Over three decades she has carried a steady focus on helping people learn skills they can use outside of sessions. She encourages practical homework, clear goals, and small behavior changes. The tone in sessions is compassionate and change-oriented.

Her Louisiana license is LCSW, which appears after her name. To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to her availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and emotional patterns. In practice this means exploring relationship history to understand reactions and to build more secure ways of relating in close relationships.

Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and reflecting back what the person says. This helps people feel heard and lets them lead the pace and topics of therapy while the therapist supports growth and self-understanding.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean blending attachment ideas, client-centered listening, and practical CBT techniques over time.

Session formats were not specified in the biography, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, it can reduce travel time, allow a shorter check-in during a lunch break, or avoid the need to be on camera if that helps someone engage. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and mindfulness practices to work in remote sessions so that therapeutic work continues to move forward.