I am passionate about helping you explore what’s getting in the way of being your full self and having the connections you want. 

I provide psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and more than couples from a place of open-mindedness, curiosity, and sex-positivity, and an awareness that our lives and relationships don’t always unfold as expected. 

People who work well with me include those with liminal identities that may not fit neatly into boxes and who may feel like outsiders in various spaces. Some are creative (artists, writers, musicians, performers, burners, etc.); work in the tech industry; approach gender, sexuality, relationships, or parenting with fluidity or nontraditionally; experience themselves as anxious, awkward, introverted, or sensitive; or are members of stigmatized or marginalized groups, were born outside of the U.S., or have parents who were.

If you work with me, during sessions, I may inquire about your somatic experience or awareness. I may ask you to visualize a part of yourself, or we may explore together aspects of your thoughts, feelings, sexuality, or spirituality. I bring a variety of influences to my work, including mindfulness, ecopsychology, and the Enneagram.

I work with people in monogamous and non-monogamous relationships and believe that similar attributes underlie the quality of these connections. I help people in relationships to explore difficult dynamics in which they find themselves stuck so that they can better understand the emotions, wounding, and activation of themselves and their partner(s) and improve their ability to communicate and connect with each other.

Doing these things well isn’t easy, and I continue to work on them, myself. Outside of my work as a therapist, I have experience in committed, long-term, and consensually non-monogamous relationships and in raising children in alternative and blended family situations, and I’m a longtime member of Bay Area sex-positive, queer, and kink-friendly communities. 

My grandparents and one parent were immigrants to the U.S. who fled persecution, and I enjoy working with clients of various ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, and spiritual backgrounds.

I’ve had a lifelong interest in psychology and writing and curiosity about people. As a young adult, I earned a bachelor’s degree in English and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and became a healthcare journalist. I’m acutely aware of the ways in which we can suffer from information and electronic overload and work circumstances that dull our sense of aliveness. 

More recently, as part of my process of midlife changes, I completed the integral counseling psychology master’s degree program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, followed by coursework there in sex therapy and training in Gestalt psychotherapy. 

I look forward to contact with you and exploring how we might work together. To contact me directly
please email me at: Lori@LoriRonigerTherapy.com

Specializations

• Individuals, couples, more than couples

• Explorations of sexuality and/or gender

• LGBTQQIAP2S+/bisexual/pansexual folks

• Non-monogamy, alternative relationships, nontraditional family, co-parenting, blended family

• Intergenerational trauma, discrimination, persecution, Holocaust 

• Ethnic/racial/religious identities, Judaism

• Issues related to spirituality, life purpose, creativity

• Creative and unconventional folks

• Tech folks

• Liminal and “passing” identities

• Midlife crisis/challenges/changes/growth

• Anxiety, introversion, sensitivity

Office Locations

• Located in San Francisco, offering virtual therapy only for now

Telephone: 415-857-5882

Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #122648
Supervised by Anna Benassi, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #96595

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