Context for behaviors is key to the healing process, so we look at the whole person, not just symptoms. Providing tips for better mental health, updates on upcoming seminars, media interviews, and info on Ms. Vann & Associates: Coaching, Counseling, Consulting provides professional, quality, ethical counseling & coaching at affordable rates. In 2021, Vann and Associates founded the Institute for N
on-Suicidal Self-Injury, www.InstituteforNSSI.com to better address the needs of the those struggling with and treating the international epidemic of self-injury. International speaker, media guest, and five-time author, Lori Vann is a regarded mental health expert and founder of Vann & Associates: Coaching, Counseling, & Consulting. With over twenty years of clinical experience, she has written five books with two more on the way. Having given 300 media interviews for outlets all over the world, she is seen as a "go to" person when behavioral health stories make headlines. Her experiences working at psychiatric hospitals, the non-profit sector, an outpatient clinic, and her own privative practice located in North Texas, has led to her motto of Here To Serve whether on a big stage, one-on-one with a client, or leading an online self-injury support group. She is a graduate of Pepperdine University where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a graduate of Chapman University where she graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Psychology. Several of the interviews as well as injury tips and upcoming seminars are on her YouTube Channel--Lori Vann, LPC-S. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram and