Lori Thompson, MSW
Offers
In-person and virtual appointments
- Social Worker
- Woman
Accepting new patients
Provider information
Description
Lori is a registered social worker with over 15 years of experience in the mental health field. Her career began by assisting families dealing with homelessness and addiction, igniting her interest in the correlation between early traumatic events and adult mental health issues. She offers a compassionate and non-judgmental space to individuals facing relationship challenges, anxiety, grief, or depression. Lori works with adults, couples, teenagers, and families, specializing in complicated grief and assisting families with children exhibiting challenging behaviors.
Conditions
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Anger Management
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Chronic Pain or Illness
- Codependency
- Depression
- Domestic Abuse or Violence
- Grief, loss, bereavement
- Infidelity
- Obesity
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Personality Disorders
- Post-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-harming or suicidal behavior
- Sex, sexuality, intimacy
- Sleep Disorder
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Suicide
- Trauma
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
Provider's hours
Sunday
9:00 am
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3:00 pm
Monday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Thursday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Saturday
9:00 am
-
3:00 pm
Services
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Expressive arts therapy
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy
- Integrative therapy
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multicultural therapy
- Person-centered therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Relational therapy
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Strength-based therapy
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
Clientele
- Adults (18+)
- Couples
- Families
- Teens (13-17)
Languages spoken
- English
Professional designations
- Master of Social Work (MSW)
Education
- -Registered Social Worker (#5495), Alberta College of Social Workers
- -Master of Social Work (M.S.W.), Howard University, Washington, DC.
- -Bachelor of arts (B.A.), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
Professional associations
- Member of the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW)
- Basic Life Support Training, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- Youth with Problematic Sexual Behaviours Course, National Children’s Alliance
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Course, Medical University of South Carolina
- Connect Care Training, Alberta Health Services
- Family Based Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder Training, CASA
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Training, Alberta Health Services
- HealthChange Methodology Training, Alberta Health Services
- Assessment and Intervention with Young Children Training, CASA
- Case
Facility: Nova Psychology
Summary
NOVA Psychology is a premier psychology clinic committed to offering the most elevated, innovative, and leading-edge mental health counselling services to our diverse clientele – children, youth, adults, couples, and families in the southwest Edmonton area and surrounding communities. We are a highly qualified team of mental health professionals devoted to creating a collaborative, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where our clients receive support, guidance, and understanding to achieve a more balanced and fulfilling life that feels valuable to them.
Business hours
Sunday
9:00 am
-
3:00 pm
Monday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Thursday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Saturday
9:00 am
-
3:00 pm
Services & supplies
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Adlerian therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Career counseling
- Christian counseling
- Coaching
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive processing therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Educational assessments
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Existential therapy
- Expressive arts therapy
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy
- Family counselling
- Family systems therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Gestalt therapy
- Group counselling
- Humanistic therapy
- Integrative therapy
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Life Coaching
- Marital counselling
- Marriage and family therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multicultural therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)
- Person-centered therapy
- Play therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Psychological testing and evaluation
- Psychological therapy
- Psycho-vocational assessment
- Relational therapy
- Relationship counselling
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Somatic therapy
- Sports psychology
- Strength-based therapy
- Structural family therapy
- Teen mental health
- The Gottman method
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
Amenities
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Wheelchair accessible
