About Lois
Lois Mallory is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and life changes. She offers straightforward support for addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem, career issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Lois builds practical plans so people can feel steadier day to day.
With 27 years of experience, she values the client as the expert in their own story.
Background and approach
She focuses on strengths and small steps that produce real change. Sessions aim to clarify what matters to each person and to build usable skills for coping and decision making. Her style is collaborative and warm.
Lois listens without judgment and helps people name feelings and patterns. She combines talk with exercises that target thoughts, behaviors, and relationships so clients leave with tools they can use between sessions. Lois draws on a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centered support, and cognitive techniques.
She adapts methods so they feel practical and relevant to everyday life rather than abstract theory. People connect with her by scheduling online sessions in California. She communicates by message several days a week and coordinates scheduling to match client needs.
Lois aims to make starting therapy clear and manageable for people taking that step.
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new behavior. It is often helpful for anxiety, mood, and coping skills practice. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current emotional life and can be useful when patterns of closeness or trust cause pain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lois will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt methods that match their goals and preferences. Treatment choices are adjusted over time based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs and can fit into a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make frequent check-ins and brief support possible between sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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