Dorie Scofield, LMFT

Dorie Scofield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in Missouri with 33 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people untangle relationship concerns, parenting struggles, grief, anxiety, and everyday thoughts and habits that get in the way of daily life. Her work often centers on making small, practical shifts that people can try between sessions.

She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Narrative therapy is part of her approach when reframing life stories helps people move forward.

Clients describe a practical, goal-oriented style that includes coaching around life choices and career exploration. She has extensive experience helping with blended family issues, adoption and foster care challenges, and fatherhood concerns. She also supports people dealing with infertility stress, body image worries, and forgiveness work.

Her background includes work with children, teens, and adults across a wide range of issues such as bullying, learning differences, anger, depression, and grief. She has training in play therapy and uses age-appropriate techniques when children are involved. Over three decades she has combined family systems thinking with hands-on tools people can use at home.

Dorie aims to challenge and encourage clients toward growth. She helps people recognize patterns, practice new habits, and set realistic goals. Those who want to begin can follow the site’s start process to match and schedule a first appointment.

How attachment and cognitive approaches work online

Dorie commonly uses attachment-based methods and cognitive behavioral ideas in her work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current behavior and connection; it helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change stress, anxiety, or low mood.

Narrative therapy can also be useful when changing the story a person tells about themselves helps reduce shame or blame. These approaches are explained in simple terms and used to set small, practical goals clients can try between sessions. Finding the right mix is part of the process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each person to decide which approach fits their needs, goals, and preferences.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the exact session formats available before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counseling into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins during a work break or between appointments. Different approaches can be adapted for remote work so that attachment concerns, thought patterns, and life stories can all be addressed without needing a specific in-person setup.