Dorie Scofield, LMFT

Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Missouri. She focuses on emotional and relationship concerns, and brings 33 years of clinical experience to her work. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people manage life changes and restore balance.

Dorie often helps with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with intimacy issues, anger, career shifts, and self-esteem struggles. Additional areas she addresses include abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family issues, fertility-related stress, and forgiveness.

Her background combines Family Systems Theory with several therapeutic approaches. Dorie uses attachment-focused ideas to look at how relationships shape behavior. She also applies cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Narrative therapy is part of her work when people want to reframe the stories they tell about themselves.

With many years working with adults, teens, children, and families, she adapts methods to each person’s needs. She has training in play therapy and practical CBT strategies that can help children and adolescents. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal oriented, with clear steps people can try between meetings.

People who contact Dorie usually want direct, compassionate guidance for real problems. She encourages clients to set achievable goals and to build on small changes that add up over time.

How Dorie’s approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds. It helps people understand repeating cycles and improve communication in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and shifting behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and practical problem solving.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made so sessions match real needs.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and let people keep appointments during work breaks or family duties. It also allows for shorter check-ins when a full session isn’t needed and can make it simpler to continue care through life changes.