Lori Salinas
Calm, practical help for parents and teens
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lori
Lori Salinas is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 17 years of clinical experience in California. She draws on long practice helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, and depression. Lori also focuses on parenting concerns and offers practical tools for parent-teen relationships.
She speaks English and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for families and caregivers. Lori keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She centers conversations on the person's story and strengths.
Background and approach
That means identifying small, usable steps a parent or caregiver can try between meetings. Her style is calm and direct, with an emphasis on teaching coping skills that fit a busy household. She has particular experience supporting teens with social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, depression, and parent-teen conflict.
In those situations she works on building skills for daily life, improving communication, and reducing distressing symptoms. Lori helps parents learn how to respond in ways that lower family tension. Therapy with her often includes skill teaching, problem-solving, and clear plans for change.
Lori treats trauma and abuse with care and attention to pacing so clients move forward at a rate that feels safe. Her approach values the client as the expert on their life while offering guidance drawn from years of practice. To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions.
Lori uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to connect with clients across California.
Practical approaches and online care that fit family life
Many clinicians who work with parenting and teen concerns use evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and behavior. One common approach teaches coping and problem-solving skills step by step to reduce anxiety and manage panic attacks; it helps people practice specific tools for everyday stress. Another approach concentrates on improving communication and attachment patterns, helping parents and teens learn clearer ways to talk and respond to one another so conflicts escalate less often.Finding the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client and family about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she tailors a plan and adjusts methods over time so the work matches changing needs and family rhythms.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Lori offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible contact options. These formats allow people across California to connect without long travel, making it simpler to follow through on plans and practice skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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