About Dorie
Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses relationship-focused methods to help people sort through life stressors. She draws on three decades of experience to address concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting strain.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on connections between people and how those patterns affect daily life. In sessions she clarifies problems and helps clients try new ways of communicating.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change reactions. Narrative techniques are used to reshape personal stories that get in the way of moving forward.
She also brings attachment-based ideas into the work, looking at how early bonds influence present relationships. That perspective guides conversations about intimacy, commitment, fatherhood issues, and blended family challenges.
Trauma-focused methods are available when past hurt keeps showing up in current life. Her experience includes supporting people through relationship strain, separation, adoption and foster care concerns, and fertility-related stress.
She works with issues around abandonment, body image, control and dependent personality traits. Career questions, coaching around life calling, and compassion fatigue are also part of her practice.
Dorie practices in Missouri and identifies as a LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Sessions are offered in English and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Online approaches that focus on relationships and change
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape how people relate now. It helps with intimacy issues, commitment worries, and patterns that lead to repeated conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete skills to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing anger.Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and try methods that fit their situation. Together they will adjust the approach over time based on what helps most, blending attachment ideas with CBT or narrative work when that makes sense.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions let people see facial cues and work through relationship scenes, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English