Lori Cunningham , LCSW-R

Lori Cunningham is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 24 years of experience helping people navigate a wide range of emotional challenges. She holds the credential LCSW-R, which indicates licensure as a clinical social worker in New York, and she has focused her practice on issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Over the course of her career she has developed particular expertise supporting clients through self-esteem struggles, social anxiety, and periods of personal transformation.

Lori's work is grounded in a compassionate, collaborative stance that aims to deepen self-understanding and build practical coping skills. She supports people across different life stages and offers targeted assistance for both women and men facing midlife transitions, caregiver stress, and the pressures that accompany major personal changes. Her approach emphasizes listening, validation, and tailored strategies to address communication problems, isolation and loneliness, and difficulties related to guilt and shame.

Clients seeking help with issues such as mood disorders, panic attacks, life purpose, forgiveness, or developing greater self-love will find a clinician attuned to these concerns. Lori combines professional experience with empathy to create a space for exploring past wounds, strengthening resilience, and pursuing meaningful personal growth.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Lori draws on client-centered therapy to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the client’s own goals and values guide the work; this approach helps people gain clarity about their feelings and priorities and is often useful for issues like life transitions, self-esteem, and finding purpose.

She also integrates cognitive behavioral therapy - CBT - which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and developing practical skills to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. CBT is goal-oriented and can help with panic attacks, social anxiety, and mood regulation.

Dialectical behavior therapy - DBT - is used when clients need concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills can support coping with crises, reducing reactivity, and improving communication in relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Lori works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they explore what feels most helpful and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions occur, and Lori provides support through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and allow ongoing access to a licensed professional and therapist guidance from different locations.