Dorie Scofield, LMFT
Therapist in Missouri
Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in Missouri with 33 years of clinical experience.
- Licensed inMissouri
- License2020010321
- NPI 1669101291
- Experience33+ years
- LanguagesEnglish
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About Dorie
Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in Missouri with 33 years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationships and attachment, helping people sort through parenting struggles, grief, anxiety, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making small changes that improve daily life.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds and family patterns shape current relationships. That perspective is blended with cognitive behavioral techniques and narrative work to help people change unhelpful thoughts and rewrite the stories that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
Trauma-focused methods are used when past hurt is getting in the way of healing. Sessions are aimed at clear goals such as improving communication, managing anger, navigating divorce or blended family challenges, and coping with stress or compassion fatigue. She also supports concerns like abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, fertility and fatherhood questions, body image, and commitment struggles.
Dorie works with individual adults as well as in family and parenting contexts. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She asks practical questions, offers observable strategies, and helps people practice new behaviors between sessions.
For many clients, this leads to improved self-esteem, better boundaries, and healthier relationships. To begin, prospective clients follow the site's matching process and schedule according to therapist availability. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through a range of online formats.
Credentials
- LMFT (Missouri)
- License 2020010321 · expires February 2026
- NPI
- 1669101291 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Dorie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
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Online support
How attachment work and online sessions fit together
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and patterns. It helps people notice repeated reactions in close relationships and develop safer ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and provides practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from problem stories and rewrite the narratives that limit their choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether attachment ideas, CBT exercises, narrative reframing, or trauma-focused methods should guide sessions and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief updates, coaching between sessions, or an alternative when speaking live is difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and daily life.
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Frequently asked
What kinds of problems does she address?
Dorie works with relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, grief, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and career questions.
How does she approach therapy?
She blends attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioral and narrative techniques, and uses trauma-focused methods when needed to help people change patterns and heal from past hurt.
What is her clinical background?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 33 years of experience working with adults, individuals in family contexts, and parenting issues.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds a Missouri LMFT credential and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and getting started handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session.
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