- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
About Dorie
Dorie Scofield is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Missouri with 33 years of experience. She provides counseling for emotional, relational, career, and spiritual concerns and often works with issues such as anger, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting struggles.
She frames her work around family systems ideas, looking at how relationships and patterns influence current problems. That perspective is used with individuals as well as in family and parenting conversations. She blends family systems thinking with approaches drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused methods.
She has experience helping people with communication problems, commitment worries, blended family challenges, and family of origin issues. She also addresses attachment questions, adoption and foster care topics, and fatherhood concerns. Her background includes work on body image, fertility and abandonment issues when these affect relationships and self-worth.
With children and teens, she has training in play therapy and uses behavioral techniques that fit developmental needs. For adults she commonly uses narrative work to help people reframe stories about themselves and their relationships. Across cases she focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
She describes her role as challenging clients to reach higher goals and to build clearer patterns for handling stress, career decisions, and intimacy-related concerns. Sessions look at what currently keeps problems alive and what can be changed in everyday life. People should confirm current session formats before booking.
How her approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions. Online sessions can be used to notice attachment patterns that show up in adult relationships and parenting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and on practicing small changes. CBT techniques translate well to remote sessions where homework and brief check-ins are emphasized.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with the client to decide whether attachment work, CBT, narrative methods, or trauma-focused techniques best fit the goals. That choice can change as progress is made and as practical needs arise.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-in meetings when needed, or remove travel time for appointments. It also supports using worksheets, behavioral assignments, and narrative exercises between sessions so work continues in day-to-day life.
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Experience
33+ years
Listed in
Missouri
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address related to anger?
She works with anger alongside relationship strain, parenting tensions, and family conflict. Anger is approached as part of broader emotional and relational patterns.
How would she approach my temper or frustration?
She uses family systems ideas together with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and narrative techniques to identify triggers and change unhelpful patterns. Practical skills and small behavior changes are part of sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 33 years of clinical experience working with individuals, children, teens, and family concerns. That background includes work on grief, trauma, and parenting issues.
What are her professional credentials and location?
She is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, practicing in Missouri.
Does she work in languages other than English or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are offered?
The biography does not list specific session formats. Confirm current session options before booking to know whether in-person or remote sessions are available.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Check the service details for exact pricing where you sign up.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session to get started.