About Doriece
Doriece Choy is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who draws on a strengths-based, realistic approach to help people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and other complex concerns.
Background and approach
With 13 years of therapeutic experience, she emphasizes collaboration and confidence building while inviting clients to explore thoughts and feelings over time. Her work centers on helping clients feel heard and supported as they develop healthier patterns and coping strategies.
She combines several evidence-informed methods including attachment-focused and client-centered techniques alongside cognitive behavioral strategies and skills from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused work. Doriece applies these approaches to a wide range of issues such as addiction, grief, relationship and family problems, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, parenting challenges, and caregiver stress.
Additional focuses include abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, eating and food-related issues, and co-morbid presentations. Licensed in Illinois and Indiana, Doriece offers services in English and accepts international clients.
Her practice aims to help clients move through difficult seasons of life by fostering hope, building practical skills, and strengthening resilience.
Combining attachment work and practical skills through online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding early relational patterns and how they affect current feelings and connections; it helps people address issues like attachment difficulties, abandonment, and family of origin concerns by exploring how past relationships shape present behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical, goal-oriented strategies to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and coping with life changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on recognizing and expressing core emotions to improve relational patterns and emotional regulation, aiding grief, relationship problems, and compassion fatigue.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Doriece collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as therapy progresses so that interventions remain relevant and helpful.
Online therapy sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These formats make it easier to access regular support, maintain continuity of care during life transitions, and try different ways of working that suit individual comfort and pace.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English