Lori Vann, a licensed professional counselor supervisor, said she opened her first private practice in 2008. She named that practice Lori Vann Counseling. As her business grew, she changed the name to Vann & Associates. In November 2023, she moved from Lewisville to Coppell and changed the name to Vann Wellness Group.

“It was a better reflection of this vision I've had for the last couple of years for holistic care,” she said. “The mind and body are interconnected and there are many different paths to reaching clients’ goals.”

The big picture

The business offers individual, family and group counseling as well as individual and group coaching. There are also holistic care options.

Vann provides counseling and coaching services and focuses on clients between 12 and 60 years old. Additional staff members include counselors, coaches, dieticians and holistic practitioners.


The specifics

Vann said individual counseling is their most sought after service. Clients come for various reasons including work stress, marriage, divorce and significant trauma. She works with a number of clients who fall in the category of non-suicidal self-injury.

“It's more significant than what people realize,” Vann said. “It's not just a teenage thing, it starts in elementary school. You also have adults that do it too. I’ve charted 32 forms of self-injury and I know there’s more out there.”

She said when people think of self-injury they typically think of cutting but it can be picking, scratching, hitting, burning, pulling hair, picking nails, biting lips and cheeks and more.


“Even intentionally starving yourself not as an eating disorder but as a way to have hunger pains,” she said.

The approach

Typical sessions vary per practitioner within the practice. Vann said most new client visits last 75 minutes and follow-up sessions are around 55 minutes. Play therapy might be divided between 30 minutes of play therapy with the child and the remaining time with the child and parent.

Vann said her "tree model" protocol applies to multiple behaviors.


“It's about getting to the root system," Vann said. "The roots are the problem. The behavior is what we see and it gets our attention. If you don’t get to the root system of what led to the behavior you’ll just be playing whack-a-mole with behaviors and they will just go to another behavior to cope.”

What else?

Holistic treatments such as sound bathing and trauma informed yoga are also offered at this practice.

“They are not religiously based,” Vann said. “There is no religion that is promoted in these holistic therapy options.”


However, they do offer professional counseling that is intertwined with Christian principles upon request.

Notable quote

Vann said although her practice's location and size has changed over time, she holds fast to her core values.

“I believe that people should have access to professional, ethical, nonjudgemental services,” she said. “I don’t believe mental health should be a luxury item. In the end we are here to serve the community in whatever facet we’re able to.”