Life can bring seasons that feel difficult to navigate alone.
At Simple Conversations, Lori Dreyer, LCSW provides compassionate, individualized therapy for adults, young adults, couples, and families in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Whether you’re experiencing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship challenges, or a major life transition, therapy can provide a safe place to slow down, understand what you’re experiencing, and begin moving forward.
You don’t have to figure it all out before you reach out.
Individual therapy provides a private, supportive space to explore what you’re experiencing and what you want to change.
You may be dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, stress, relationship concerns, or a transition that has left you feeling uncertain about what comes next.
Therapy gives you the opportunity to better understand your thoughts and emotions, develop healthier coping strategies, work through difficult experiences, and move toward greater balance and well-being.
Support may include:
Relationships can be deeply rewarding — and sometimes deeply challenging.
When communication breaks down, conflict becomes repetitive, or emotional distance begins to grow, it can be difficult to find your way back to one another.
As a Gottman Level 1 Trained therapist, Lori uses research-informed couples therapy to help partners better understand their relationship patterns, improve communication, navigate conflict, and create opportunities for renewed connection.
Couples therapy may be helpful when you’re experiencing:
The goal isn’t simply to stop arguing. It’s to create a relationship where both people can feel heard, understood, and connected.
Traumatic experiences can affect how we think, feel, respond, and relate to others — sometimes long after the experience itself has passed.
As an EMDR trained clinician, Lori provides trauma-informed support in a safe, individualized environment.
EMDR therapy can help clients process distressing experiences and reduce the emotional impact associated with difficult memories.
Therapy may support individuals experiencing:
The process is paced with care and centered around your readiness and individual needs.
Anxiety and depression can affect much more than your mood. They can influence relationships, work, sleep, motivation, confidence, and your ability to enjoy everyday life.
Therapy provides a space to understand what you’re experiencing and develop practical strategies for navigating difficult emotions and patterns.
Together, we can work toward:
You don’t have to simply push through.
Grief can follow the loss of a person, relationship, role, future expectation, or chapter of life.
And everyone experiences it differently.
Therapy can provide a compassionate space where you don’t have to rush the process or explain why you feel the way you do.
Together, we can make room for the emotions that come with loss while finding ways to move through this chapter with care and understanding.
Support may include:
Some transitions are expected. Others arrive without warning.
A new chapter, relationship change, career shift, loss, family change, or other major life event can leave you questioning what comes next.
Therapy can provide space to process the change, understand what you’re feeling, and identify a healthy path forward.
Support may include:
Families can love one another deeply and still struggle to communicate, understand each other, or navigate difficult patterns.
Family therapy looks at the family as a whole and creates an opportunity to develop healthier ways of relating to one another.
As a clinician certified in Emotional Family Focused Therapy (EFFT), Lori helps families work toward greater emotional connection, communication, and understanding.
Family therapy may support:
The goal is not to find someone to blame. It is to understand the patterns and create healthier ways forward together.
Not every relationship challenge means something is fundamentally wrong.
Sometimes relationships simply need attention, understanding, and a safe place to have the conversations that are difficult to have alone.
Whether you’re struggling with communication, feeling disconnected, navigating change, or simply want to strengthen an important relationship, therapy can provide a supportive space to begin.
Life can become demanding quickly.
Work, family, relationships, responsibilities, and unexpected challenges can leave little room to process what you’re carrying.
Therapy can help you slow down, understand your emotional responses, strengthen coping skills, and create healthier ways of managing stress.
The goal isn’t to eliminate every difficult moment.
It’s to help you feel more equipped to navigate them.
Sometimes you know exactly what you’re looking for.
Sometimes you only know that something doesn’t feel right.
That’s okay.
Your first conversation can help me understand what you’re experiencing and determine what type of support may be appropriate for you.
You don’t have to have the right words.
You don’t have to know exactly what comes next.
And you don’t have to navigate it alone.
If you’re ready to talk, Lori is here to listen.
