Lori Medeiros

I believe healing happens through honest connection and a therapeutic relationship where you feel safe enough to be fully yourself. Seeking support takes courage, especially when you have been carrying difficult experiences on your own for a long time.

My experience includes addiction treatment, homelessness services, street outreach, and more than 12 years facilitating grief and bereavement groups through FRIENDS WAY. I have supported people through sudden death, suicide loss, overdose loss, anticipatory grief, and complicated bereavement, giving me extensive experience in grief, loss, and thanatology.

I work with adults navigating substance use and recovery, grief and loss, trauma, anxiety, depression, end-of-life concerns, and difficult life transitions. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, practical, and grounded in harm reduction and evidence-based care.

My approach is practical, collaborative, and rooted in who you are and what matters to you. I draw from Motivational Interviewing, CBT, ACT, Narrative Therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches, adapting treatment to your needs, goals, and where you are in the process.

Harm reduction is central to my work with substance use. I meet people where they are, without judgment and without assuming there is only one path to recovery. In grief work, I bring both clinical training in thanatology and more than 12 years of experience supporting people through profound loss.

Therapy is not about fixing you. It is about helping you understand yourself more fully, build practical tools, and move toward a life that feels more meaningful and more like your own.

Our first session is a chance to get to know each other and begin building trust. We'll talk about what brought you to therapy, what has been weighing on you, and what you hope for moving forward.

You do not need to have all the words or know exactly where to begin. We will move at a pace that feels comfortable and work together to understand what support would be most helpful for you.

My hope is that you leave our first conversation feeling a little less alone, a little more understood, and a little more ready for what comes next.