I am not suggesting that we live a life preoccupied with sorrow. I am saying that our refusal to welcome the sorrows that come to us, our inability to move through these experiences with true presence and conscious awareness, condemns us to a life shadowed by grief. Welcoming everything that comes to us is the challenge. This is the secret to being fully alive.
― Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
If you're finding it tough to cope with grief, anxiety, or navigating life transitions, know that I'm here to offer support and strategies to help you integrate your experiences. My aim is not to rush you to move on, but rather to move through and with these emotions alongside you. Loss — whether it's from death, break-ups, job changes, or exploring aspects of gender, identity, family dynamics, kink, or non-monogamy — is woven into many of life's challenges. In our sessions together, all these topics and more are open for discussion.
You don’t need to settle for a therapist with whom you can only partially show up, someone who is ok, but not someone with whom you really connect.
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Grief & Loss Therapy
Compassionate, evidence- and experience-based grief therapy offering tailored support to help individuals navigate loss, build resilience, and find meaning in their process. Non-death losses, ambiguous loss, and anticipatory losses are all welcome.
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Therapy for Anxiety
I offer grounded, compassionate therapy for anxiety that equips clients with practical tools to cultivate calm, build confidence, and restore balance in daily life.
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Poly & Non-Monogamy Affirming Therapy
Through lived experience and training, I am equipped as a clinician to help you explore new ways of being in relationship and hold space for where trauma, attachment, and non-monogamy interact.
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Relationship Therapy
I support relationships of all kinds in deepening connection, improving communication, and navigating conflict with clarity and care.
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Gender-Affirming & Exploring Therapy
I am here to support you in relationship to gender; whether you are seeking documentation for affirming medical care or to explore the nuances of gender identity and expression.
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Kink & Sex Positive Therapy
Kink-affirming and sex-positive therapy celebrates the aspects of human experience that are rooted in pleasure and play. This is a sex worker friendly practice.
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Chronic Illness & Caregivers
I support caregivers and individuals living with chronic or serious illnesses by providing a compassionate space to process overwhelm, grief, and identity shifts, while building resilience and sustainable coping strategies. I have particular experience with dementia and cancer illness trajectories.
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Life Transitions & Identity Shifts
Supportive, affirming therapy for navigating major life changes and evolving identities. Whether you're moving through shifts in relationships, roles, health, gender, career, or self-understanding, this space honors the complexity of becoming.
About Me
Hello! I’m Lori (she/they), a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and grief psychotherapist offering virtual support across Pennsylvania (CW0219992) and Florida (TPSW3946).
I companion individuals through the complex terrain of grief, identity shifts, chronic illness, and life transitions. Whether you’re navigating the emotional weight of caregiving, the disorientation of loss, or the quiet ache of change, you don’t have to do it alone. My practice is grounded in warmth, realism, and deep respect for your inner wisdom.
My approach draws from a variety of therapeutic modalities, including attachment-based, somatic, narrative, feminist, humanist, relational-cultural, constructivist, and vaso-vagal-informed methods. Sessions are collaborative and flexible, always shaped by your needs, preferences, and lived experience. I strive to offer evidence-based care with a gentle, intuitive touch—balancing honesty, compassion, and curiosity.
As a white, queer, neurodivergent, femme nonbinary therapist, I try to bring a lived understanding of how identity, systemic injustice, and community impact our capacity to grieve and heal. My work is rooted in anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and abolitionist values, with a commitment to justice and collective liberation. I believe that grief is not something to fix or overcome, but something to tend to—and that within it, we can also discover love, clarity, and even humor.
Outside of private practice, I collaborate with the Salt Trails Collective on public, communal grief rituals and was previously a co-founder, educator, and death doula with the Philly Death Doula Collective. I also share grief reflections and resources at @MoonVineGrief on Instagram, where I explore the tender intersections of mourning, meaning-making, and ritual.
I live in West Philadelphia with my nesting partner and our sweet rescue dog, and I find solace and joy in flea markets, art-making, and the beauty of everyday magic.
If you're curious to learn more, feel free to explore my FAQs for information about my training and therapeutic style. And if you're ready to begin, I’d be honored to connect with you.
Writings & Resources
I use this space for sharing links, events, perspectives, and other relevant resources that current and potential clients could benefit from.
