Lori Arceneaux, LCSW

Lori Arceneaux is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Louisiana with 22 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Lori uses clear, collaborative conversation to help people make small changes that add up to better daily functioning.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with client-centered listening and elements of emotionally focused work. Lori aims to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns, try new behaviors, and build stronger ways of relating to others. Sessions are paced to match each person’s needs and goals.

She has a long history helping people with relationship difficulty, communication problems, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and parenting stress. Lori also addresses issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, blended family dynamics, body image concerns, caregiver stress, and coping after disasters. Her background includes work with first responders and people facing fertility or family-of-origin struggles.

In the room she focuses on practical tools and steady support. Lori works to identify strengths, improve communication skills, and teach coping strategies that people can use between sessions. She emphasizes collaboration so each person helps shape the goals and pace of therapy.

People coming for help can expect a warm, straightforward style. Lori aims to create a calm space for talking, experimenting with new approaches, and solving the real problems that affect daily life.

How Lori’s Methods Translate to Online Care

Many of Lori’s core approaches are easy to use through online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors; online appointments let people practice skills and then discuss results. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and collaboration to let people set goals and feel heard during video or phone conversations. Emotionally focused ideas guide work on attachment and communication, which can be explored through talk-based formats and guided exercises.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lori will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She treats the process as a collaboration and adjusts methods over time based on what is helping.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text-based messaging can be used for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep steady momentum toward goals.