Works with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
How Dorie works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Years in practice
- 33
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Dorie
Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in Missouri who blends relational thinking with practical tools. She focuses on anger, relationships, parenting, grief, anxiety, and life transitions. Her style aims to help people find clearer ways to cope and connect.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape behavior. That helps when anger or trust issues come from earlier patterns. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different responses in real life.
Background and approach
Narrative therapy is another part of her work, helping people retell difficult experiences so those events feel less controlling. Trauma-focused methods address painful memories and their ongoing effects. Together these approaches give a mix of insight and hands-on skills.
Dorie has 33 years of experience working with adults and young people on family and personal concerns. Her background includes marriage and family therapy, play therapy, and CBT methods that can be useful with children. Over time she has helped people manage stress, depression, relationship conflict, and parenting strains.
Sessions tend to be straightforward: talk about the problem, try practical steps, and check what works. She also supports career questions, issues around adoption and foster care, body image, blended families, and forgiveness work. Dorie aims to challenge people gently to reach their goals and regain a sense of direction.
What Dorie works with
Everything Dorie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Dorie's practice.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dorie lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How attachment and CBT translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current behavior and closeness. Online sessions use this approach to map patterns that lead to anger, distance, or repeated fights and then try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In video or phone sessions clients learn to spot unhelpful thoughts, test them, and practice alternative reactions between meetings. That makes it easier to manage anger, anxiety, and low mood with concrete skills. Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels realistic. Together they pick or blend methods and adjust as progress is tracked over time. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person work when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging is useful for short check-ins, homework prompts, or when writing out thoughts helps more than talking. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to fit therapy into a busy life.Questions people ask about Dorie
What concerns does this therapist handle?
She works with relationship strain, anger, parenting challenges, grief, anxiety, depression, trauma and related struggles like self-esteem and communication problems.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style combines attachment-based thinking, cognitive behavioral techniques, narrative work, and trauma-focused methods to mix insight with practical skills.
What is her professional background?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 33 years of clinical experience and training that includes play therapy and CBT approaches useful with children.
Where is she located and licensed?
She practices in Missouri and holds the credential LMFT as a Missouri licensed marriage and family therapist.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats are available online?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.