About Lori
Lori Weir-Weber is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 11 years of clinical experience. She guides people through stress, anxiety, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Her work also includes support for depression, relationship struggles, and concerns around identity and intimacy. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through what feels overwhelming.
Lori focuses on listening closely and helping people name what they are feeling. She encourages small, practical steps that fit into daily life so change feels manageable.
Her approach pays attention to how relationships and communication shape stress and conflict. Lori helps people sort through family issues and communication problems while also addressing anger, self-esteem, and career-related strain.
She also supports people coping with addictions, sleep and eating concerns, and life transitions. She works with people affected by abandonment issues, social anxiety and phobias, and bipolar-related challenges.
Sessions aim to build clearer thinking, steadier moods, and more effective ways of relating to others. The tone is collaborative and steady rather than prescriptive.
People who choose Lori often want practical strategies plus emotional support. She helps clients set goals and track small changes over time.
The goal is to improve day-to-day functioning and to help people feel more capable handling relationships and stressful situations.
How Lori’s Approaches Work Online
Many clinicians use evidence-based techniques that help people manage symptoms and rebuild coping skills. One common approach focuses on skills for managing anxiety and mood - teaching breathing and grounding techniques, restructuring anxious thoughts, and building routines that support sleep and eating. This type of work can reduce daily distress and make emotions easier to handle.Another useful approach targets relationship and communication patterns. Sessions look at how people relate to others, practice different ways of speaking and listening, and develop clearer boundaries. That work helps with family stress, communication problems, intimacy issues, and repeated conflicts.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English