Lori
Cohen, Marriage Family Therapist,
is a licensed psychotherapist and is currently a Clinical
Supervisor for a School Based Mental Health Program with
a community contracted mental health agency. In this position
she oversees and manages the agency’s various clinical
and administrative needs and various other functions required
to manage such an agency. In addition, she clinically supervises
interns and clinicians, in individual and group settings,
who are working towards there state licensing credentials,
to assist them in providing the most valuable, therapeutic,
spiritual and transformational experience to their clients.
Lori has wide ranging experience in providing
psychotherapeutic processes and interventions to children,
families, couples and the chronic mentally ill. She has
gained experience in various settings including community
counseling centers and agencies, county contracted agencies,
non-public schools. In the private sector, she has provided
psychotherapeutic services, supportive counseling services
and trainings to troubled teens and adolescents, foster
care children, adults, as well as families and their children
in such various community, non-profit and private settings.
She has been involved in numerous trainings
and workshops from family trainings to couples workshops/trainings,
relationship trainings, working with troubled and difficult
teens, working with dreams and the unconscious, art and
play therapies, short term and other brief models of therapy,
substance abuse, dual diagnosis and the addicted brain,
and the like, and imparts these skills and knowledge to
her staff through trainings and supervised clinical settings.
Lori also maintains a private practice for
couples, families and individuals. Coupling her extensive
clinical training and experience with her deeply intuitive
skills and her profound ability to listen and understand,
her clinical team and clients benefit from an amazing increase
in ability to function well in their lives – in their
relationships, their work and school lives.
Pertinent
training:
Ryokan College: Masters Degree in Counseling
Psychology and Bachelors of Arts Degree in Human Behavior.
Ryokan College provides a supportive learning environment
that stimulates creativity and spirituality, and brings
forth the potential in every student.
Additionally, Lori has maintained an open
and abiding interest in human potential and spiritual growth
which has fueled her involvement in personal growth programs
like The Forum and other like trainings which enhanced both
her own life and those of her clients.
Lori has also traveled extensively and lived
in many parts of the world and has the experience and acute
sensitivity to others and their unique cultural life experiences
which are significant in understanding many other factors
that affect behavior patterns and that ultimately can be
pervasive in the making of a relationship.
She lives in Southern California with her
son and husband.
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