Lori Hancock-Muck, LMHC

Lori Hancock-Muck is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who centers her work on practical, person-focused therapy. She emphasizes the client’s own strengths and choices. Lori aims to make therapy approachable and clear for people facing major life transitions, including midlife crisis concerns.

She draws on 15 years of direct counseling experience in community and clinical settings. Lori has spent much of her career helping people with addiction, stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family challenges. Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on small steps that lead to real change.

In sessions she uses techniques from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people understand thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She also uses motivational interviewing to support readiness for change and solution-focused methods to set practical short-term goals. Plans are tailored to each person’s strengths and needs rather than a one-size-fits-all program.

She has experience across a range of life issues that often come together - grief, parenting strain, career uncertainty, money stress, and problems with intimacy or self-esteem. Lori speaks plainly about coping strategies and problem-solving tools so people can use them between sessions.

People who connect with Lori usually want straightforward guidance, help sorting priorities, and encouragement to try different strategies. She frames change as a step-by-step process and offers steady support while clients experiment with new ways of coping.

How Lori’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship. In practice this means sessions emphasize the person’s perspective, values, and choices while the therapist reflects and asks questions to clarify goals.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It gives straightforward tools to test unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or shift mood.

Motivational interviewing supports people who feel torn about change. It uses focused questions and reflective listening to strengthen motivation and plan realistic next steps for issues like addiction or habit change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From that conversation a plan is made collaboratively, and techniques can be adjusted as needs evolve.

Confirm the available session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, shorten commute time, or allow for a quicker check-in when life is hectic. They can also let people try tools in their day-to-day routines and bring real situations into session work.