Lois Durrah is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in South Carolina.
01About Lois
Lois Durrah is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in South Carolina. She focuses on helping people rethink unhelpful thoughts and take small steps toward clearer goals. Her approach is warm and encouraging, with an aim to help people find more meaning and calm in daily life.
Lois uses practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. She helps people notice patterns in thinking and test new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on short-term strategies that can reduce anxiety, increase self-esteem, or support career and relationship decisions. Her background includes extensive nonprofit work spanning three decades supporting people with disabilities. That experience shaped a focus on maximizing opportunities and finding strengths in difficult situations.
Lois combines that perspective with counseling skills to help people manage grief, trauma, caregiver stress, and major life changes. Lois holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina Spartanburg and dual master’s degrees in professional counseling and human services-executive leadership from Liberty University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina.
Her clinical style is person-centered and solution-focused, with CBT techniques woven in. In sessions she aims to create a welcoming space to process emotions and build coping skills. People who work with her typically set clear goals and practice concrete steps between meetings.
Lois describes her role as walking alongside clients while they pursue greater peace and purpose.
02Credentials
- LPC (South Carolina)
- License 8139 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1275289142 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lois lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Self-love
Methods Lois names
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04Online support
Online approaches that focus on action and change
Lois draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and skills-based, and it can help with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem by teaching coping strategies and small experiments to shift thinking.She also uses solution-focused therapy which emphasizes setting clear goals and building on what already works. This approach looks for strengths and small, immediate steps that move a person toward their priorities, such as improving relationships or managing stress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Lois works collaboratively to match methods to each person’s goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. She aims to combine short-term strategies with longer-term skill building so people see tangible change.
Online therapy with Lois is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life - video for face-to-face conversation, phone when bandwidth is low, chat or messaging for quick check-ins and brief coaching. The variety helps people maintain continuity of care and practice new skills between sessions.
05Questions people ask
What issues does Lois help with?
She works with relationship concerns, low self-esteem, career stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and intimacy-related issues among other life challenges.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style blends person-centered care with solution-focused techniques and cognitive behavioral therapy strategies to set goals and practice new habits.
How much professional experience does she have?
She has three years of counseling experience and over thirty years working in a nonprofit serving people with disabilities, which informs her perspective.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats does she offer?
Lois provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How do costs and billing work?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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