Lois Plock, LCSW

Lois Plock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 11 years of clinical experience who brings life experience and a thoughtful, later-in-life path to education into her practice. She is dually licensed in North Carolina and Florida and blends practical insight with formal training to approach clients' challenges from multiple viewpoints.

Her professional background includes work in residential addiction treatment, Intensive Outpatient Programs, support group facilitation, life skills instruction, and public speaking. Early career roles across these settings helped her develop a broad understanding of the varied needs people present in mental health care. Working through a Christian counseling framework, she has supported individuals dealing with low self-esteem, questions of purpose, guilt and shame, and other life obstacles.

Lois uses a collaborative approach that pairs faith-informed counseling with a range of evidence-based methods. Her toolkit includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and client-centered techniques. She is described by her own practice philosophy as compassionate and empathetic while remaining direct, aiming to provide a supportive environment for clients to address barriers that cause distress.

Her areas of specialty include addictions, relationship concerns, grief, self-esteem, stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, depression, and ADHD. She also attends to related focuses such as abandonment, codependency, family of origin issues, impulsivity, and first responder concerns. Therapy is provided in English.