About Lois
Lois Mallory is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 27 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and life changes. Lois supports clients who are dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, addictions, attention challenges, and career struggles.
She views each person as the expert on their own life and works from that starting point. Sessions focus on building practical skills, naming patterns, and trying small steps that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Lois aims to create a calm space where people can talk through hard feelings and consider new directions. Her approach blends several therapies to match what a person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts that lead to unhelpful behavior.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages choosing meaningful actions even when hard feelings remain. Attachment-based and client-centered work support stronger relationships with self and others. Lois draws on long experience helping people cope with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and the aftermath of abuse or disaster.
She also supports those dealing with bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and blended family issues. Practical problem solving is mixed with attention to values and connection. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule times that fit their lives. Lois checks messages regularly and coordinates appointments to help people get started.
Therapy approaches that translate online
Lois commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thought patterns that feed worry or depression and teaches concrete skills to change behavior and mood.She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen how people relate to themselves and others. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Lois collaborates with each person to decide what feels most helpful for their goals and adjusts methods as the work progresses.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation when a deeper exchange is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick updates, ongoing support, or when people prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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