Dorie Scofield, LMFT

Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in Missouri with 33 years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, as well as grief, parenting struggles, stress, anxiety, trauma and intimacy-related issues. Her work aims to help people clarify goals, strengthen connections, and manage life changes in practical ways.

She draws heavily on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools are used to identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way, and to build healthier patterns. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe their stories and make new choices about themselves and their relationships.

Her background includes marriage and family counseling alongside work with individual adults, teens, children, and blended family situations. She has experience addressing bullying, self-esteem, depression, grief, and parenting challenges. Dorie has also worked with issues around adoption and foster care, fertility concerns, and family of origin problems.

She integrates Family Systems perspectives to see how each person fits into broader relational patterns. Play therapy methods and cognitive-behavioral techniques are part of her toolbox when working with children. The approach is practical and goal oriented, with attention to how daily habits affect relationships.

Clients can expect straightforward conversations, focused skill-building, and collaborative planning. She encourages people to take small, achievable steps toward better communication, emotional regulation, and life direction.

How Dorie's Approaches Translate to Online Work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotions. This approach helps people understand patterns in close relationships and build safer, more dependable ways of relating.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for changing small daily habits that affect mood and relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client will talk through goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. They can try strategies from different approaches and adjust based on how well they fit the client's needs.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. It may reduce travel time, allow quicker check-ins between appointments, and let people join from a quieter spot when that helps concentration. Confirm which session formats are offered before booking, since specific options are not listed here. Licensed professionals can adapt attachment, CBT, and narrative methods to remote sessions by using guided exercises, homework, and structured conversations to support ongoing progress.