Dorrie Lombardi Chandler

Dorrie Lombardi Chandler is a licensed mental health counselor with 19 years of experience who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She offers a calm, empathetic approach and creates space to talk about worries, relationships, parenting concerns, sleep problems, and identity questions. Her style emphasizes listening and practical conversation that fits each person's situation.

She meets clients where they are and treats them as the best experts on their own lives. Sessions focus on building trust, naming problems, and trying small changes that can make daily life easier. Therapy is presented without judgment and with steady support.

Dorrie draws on a mix of tools when helpful, including cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and action, and client-centered methods that prioritize the client’s perspective. She also uses elements from dialectical behavior work and emotionally-focused strategies when relationships or intense emotions are central concerns.

Her background includes long experience supporting people with trauma, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and attachment issues. She works with concerns such as body image, codependency, communication problems, and intimacy-related issues by breaking them into manageable steps.

Clients can expect practical conversation, reflective questions, and homework when it serves goals. Dorrie aims for each person to leave sessions feeling a bit more capable and ready to handle what comes next.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Dorrie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify patterns of thought and behavior that get in the way, then practice new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them while learning to tolerate difficult feelings.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend techniques that fit. This is a collaborative process and can change as progress is made.

The biography does not list which online session formats are used, so confirm available options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten commute time, and allow brief check-ins between in-depth appointments when helpful. It also lets people use tools like worksheets and screen sharing during sessions to practice skills and track progress.