About Lois
Lois Mallory is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She supports those struggling with life changes, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating issues, parenting strain, and questions of self-esteem and career direction. Lois works from California and communicates in English.
Lois views each person as the expert in their own story. She offers steady support while helping people find tools to manage strong emotions and challenging habits.
How Lois works
Sessions emphasize practical steps that can be used between meetings, not just talk during them. Her approach blends several methods to suit individual needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take meaningful action even when feelings are hard. Lois also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ways of working to build trust and follow the person’s lead. Existential ideas come into play when people face questions about purpose, meaning, and loss.
Together these approaches shape a flexible plan focused on real-life change. Lois aims to make starting therapy straightforward. She responds to messages most days of the week and coordinates scheduling to fit each person’s needs.
Her style is calm, direct, and respectful, with attention to concrete skills and emotional understanding.
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What Lois works with
The areas below are the ones Lois selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Lois’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and testing new responses to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current trust and closeness, and can help with intimacy, communication, and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lois collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She will listen to what a person hopes to change and adapt techniques from different approaches so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online work can make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer, interactive session is helpful. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a meeting needs to be less formal. Live chat and text-based messaging offer short check-ins, quick coping tools, or ongoing support between sessions. These options provide flexibility while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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