About Lori

Most of us never learned how to talk about the tender stuff: desire, closeness, the fights that keep happening, the parts of ourselves we're still figuring out. That's the work I love. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist in San Francisco, and I work with couples and individuals on relationships and sexuality.

My approach is body-aware and unhurried. I pay attention to what's alive for you right now, in your words and in your body, and we get curious together about where it comes from: your family, your attachment history, the things you've lived through. With couples, I help you see the pattern you keep getting pulled into, the cycle that makes you feel like opponents, and shift it so you feel more like a team again.

Sex, desire and intimacy come up in my office often, and I meet them with curiosity, not judgment. Whatever you're carrying is part of being human, and it's something we can work with.

Lori works with individuals and Partners, including people who are:

• Consensually nonmonogamous or polyamorous, or navigating questions about it

• LGBTQIA+

• Kink affirming

• Exploring sexuality, gender or identity

• Parents or blending families

• Neurodivergent

• Looking for sex therapy and support around desire, intimacy and connection

• Deepening intimacy and cultivating secure attachment

• Needing support with trauma

Training:

Master's in integral counseling psychology, CIIS. CIIS Sex Therapy Certificate (2020). Currently working toward AASECT sex therapy certification. Love Made Simple somatic couples therapy training, Embodied Relational Sex Therapy training, Hakomi somatic psychotherapy. Draws on Emotionally Focused Therapy principles and the Bader and Pearson initiator and inquirer format. Earlier in her career, Lori was a healthcare journalist, and she completed San Francisco Sex Information sex educator training.

Sessions:

In person at an office on the edge of the Mission and Bernal neighborhoods, and online across California. Weekday daytime and evenings.