Lori Simmons, LMFT

Lori Simmons is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Maryland with 16 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, anger, sleep and eating concerns, parenting pressures, bipolar mood challenges, trauma and LGBT issues. Lori uses practical, skills-based work to help people notice what matters and act in line with those values.

She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and the Gottman Method to build straightforward tools for everyday life. Sessions focus on mindful awareness, managing strong emotions, improving communication, and choosing actions that fit personal values. Lori aims to reduce symptoms and help people function better day to day.

In practice she teaches concrete skills such as distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and acceptance strategies. People often learn ways to respond differently when anger or anxiety spikes, and how to repair conversations after conflict. Work can include exercises to clarify values and small behavioral steps toward those values.

Lori also helps with relationship patterns using Gottman-informed techniques to improve listening and start productive conversations. That work is practical and action oriented rather than theoretical. It is presented in short, usable exercises for couples and for individuals working on intimacy-related concerns.

Her approach is collaborative and goal focused. She guides clients through hands-on practice, gentle experiments, and skills they can use between sessions. To begin, readers are invited to follow the site steps to match and schedule a first appointment.

How ACT, DBT and Gottman work in online sessions