- Attachment based work
- Cognitive behavioral tools
- Narrative therapy methods
About Dorie
Dorie Scofield is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Missouri with 33 years of clinical experience. She provides counseling for emotional, relational, career, and spiritual concerns and lists relationship, family, parenting, grief, anxiety, trauma, and blended family issues among her focus areas.
She often works from a family systems perspective, looking at how relationships and roles affect feelings and behavior. In sessions she uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and narrative work to help people name patterns and test new ways of responding.
Dorie has experience helping people with anger, depression, self-esteem, and communication problems. She also supports clients dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, abandonment, and fertility or fatherhood challenges.
Her background includes work with children and teens as well as adults, and she has training in play therapy and cognitive/behavioral techniques useful with younger clients. She integrates these skills into adult work when family relationships and parenting are part of the concern.
Sessions look at real-life choices such as career moves, relationship boundaries, and parenting decisions. She uses straightforward questions and practical exercises to move conversations from insight to action. People contact her when they need help sorting roles, expectations, and loyalties in blended households and other family settings.
Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape expectations and reactions. It helps people understand loyalty conflicts, trust issues, and how to build steadier bonds within blended households.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It provides practical tools to test unhelpful beliefs, manage anxiety or anger, and try new responses in tense family moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to the client’s goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients are invited to give feedback so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking since the biography did not list specific options. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove commute time so scheduling is simpler. Licensed professionals can use these methods effectively in remote work when practical issues like travel, time, or childcare make in-person visits harder.
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Experience
33+ years
Listed in
Missouri
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with relationship and family issues, including parenting, blended family challenges, grief, anxiety, trauma, and stress.
How would she approach stepfamily or blended household problems?
She uses a family systems perspective to look at roles and patterns and combines narrative and CBT techniques to change unhelpful interactions.
What experience does she bring to this work?
She has 33 years of clinical experience and a background that includes work with adults, teens, children, and family concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a LMFT licensed in Missouri and provides services from that state.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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