Donna Lordi, LCPC

My phi­los­o­phy of care includes a com­pre­hen­sive sci­en­tif­ic and behav­ioral approach to treat­ment that looks at men­tal and phys­i­cal health, as well as all psy­choso­cial fac­tors for the indi­vid­ual. The rela­tion­ship between the mind and the body is a pow­er­ful one, and I am a big believ­er in the har­mo­ny between med­ical and men­tal health care. In work­ing one-on-one, I cus­tomize an indi­vid­ual plan for each patient that I meet which is spe­cif­ic to their needs. I believe that we should always see a demon­stra­ble ben­e­fit for time spent in psy­chother­a­py; as a for­mer soft­ware devel­op­er I am very solu­tion-focused. I view myself as a very prac­ti­cal ther­a­pist in that I aim to treat the root cause of issues rather than focus on the symp­toms alone. Ther­a­py for me is also a col­lab­o­ra­tive process. I seek to empow­er patients through edu­ca­tion and encour­ag­ing their agency in the health­care sys­tem, because these two things lead to more pos­i­tive out­comes in the long run. I also con­nect with the strug­gles my patients face. For exam­ple, I am pas­sion­ate about bariatrics because I myself have been a bariatric patient and have lost sev­er­al hun­dred pounds, so I have both clin­i­cal and first-hand expe­ri­ence regard­ing the process. This means I real­ly under­stand the impact that changes in our men­tal health can have on our phys­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal well-being, and how impor­tant it is to find a provider that both empathizes with us, and helps us achieve our goals, as well.