Lori Franklin
Compassionate, practical support for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lori
Lori Franklin is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate difficult life moments. She focuses on trauma and abuse, grief and loss, parenting concerns, anger, and depression. Lori keeps language plain and meets people where they are.
She encourages small steps forward and recognizes that starting therapy takes courage. Her work centers on building an open, nonjudgmental space for sharing thoughts and feelings. Lori listens first and then helps people identify practical steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
She draws on evidence-based approaches to address symptoms of post-traumatic stress and panic, and to reduce persistent worries or low mood. Sessions often include talking through difficult memories, learning skills to manage strong emotions, and practicing new ways to communicate. Lori also supports people coping with relationship shifts like divorce or separation and with issues such as guilt, shame, and isolation.
She helps clients explore body image and self-worth concerns, and ways to regain a sense of purpose. Therapy can be paced to the person’s comfort level, with attention to safety and readiness. Lori helps with setting realistic goals and tracking small changes.
Her style is steady and practical, aiming to make daily life feel more manageable. She practices in California and conducts sessions in English. Lori offers multiple remote session formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Many clients benefit from clearly structured methods that focus on current problems and teach practical skills. Lori uses trauma-informed techniques that help people process painful memories and reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms. These approaches include grounding and gradual processing to make memories easier to manage and lessen intense reactions.She also uses skills-based strategies for emotion regulation and panic management. These techniques teach breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce panic and anxiety symptoms. For grief and anger, sessions combine listening with coping tools so people can carry on daily tasks while they heal.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is collaborative. Lori will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove travel needs, and live chat or text-based messaging give ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit it into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
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- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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