About Lori
Dr. Lori Montross helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She works with concerns like low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, social anxiety, and workplace issues.
Her approach centers on clear goals and practical steps people can use day to day. Dr. Montross creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters most.
Sessions often focus on building new habits and testing small changes between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools people can try right away. Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and client-centered listening. That mix supports mood concerns, chronic illness or pain, and struggles with meaning or purpose.
She also addresses issues such as abandonment, communication problems, forgiveness, and midlife transitions. Dr. Montross has ten years of clinical experience and holds the credential CA Psychologist 25412, which indicates her California psychologist registration.
She offers sessions in English and practices from California. Typical meetings result in a personal plan tailored to daily life. Many clients leave sessions with concrete steps to reduce anxious thinking, improve coping, and notice what brings more satisfaction.
The work is practical, collaborative, and paced to fit each person's needs.
How Dr. Montross blends approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and still move toward what matters. It emphasizes values-based action and practical exercises to reduce avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches skills to change them, which can help with anxiety and mood. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase awareness, useful for stress and chronic pain.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and daily routines. That collaborative approach means tools are adjusted over time based on what helps.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face work and guided exercises; phone sessions can be less demanding on bandwidth; live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or when writing feels better. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, shorter touchpoints between meetings, and different ways to practice skills in real time.
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- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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