Lori Lickstein, MSW, LCSW-C is a licensed clinical social worker, Doctoral Student at the University of Pennsylvania, Maryland social work board approved clinical supervisor in private practice in Hunt Valley, Maryland. She brings years of clinical experience and specialized training with the goal of helping each client discover their sense of purpose and hope with a sound mind, body and spirit. Lori is focused on healing and transforming the lives of clients with authentic and meaningful connection through personalized and empathic relational interaction. She strives to partner with individuals, couples and families across the life span to ensure safety and emotional health throughout the healing and change process. You will work together in a respectful and safe environment processing towards healing and hope.
Lori Lickstein provides clinical psychotherapy with specialties in:
- healing from abuse and trauma
- child and adolescent
- addictions and self harming behaviors
- Schizoaffective Disorders
- depression/mood disorders
- anxiety
- PTSD
- ADHD
- Parent Coordinator
- Divorce, coercive control and parental alienation
- Spousal abuse
- parenting concerns
- step and blended family concerns
- coping with medical problems
- grief/loss
Authenticity grounds her work as she actively engages in a collaborative therapeutic process in a safe space. Lori practices from a strength based, relational and humanistic perspective working together in a collaborative process. Lori has decades of experience working with children, adolescents, adults and families. It is Lori’s goal to help you experience a life free of anxiety and fear while filled with validation and hope and to better understand yourself and you move through healing.
Lori works to incorporate mindfulness, psychotherapy, art, trauma focused modalities, while engaging the bioneuroscience of healing. Some certifications and trainings: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Parent Coordinator, child custody evaluator, divorce and relational mediation, LEFCC (Litigation and Evaluation Involving Abuse Allegations in Family Court Cases) IVAT specialty certification for family court professionals, CBT, TF-CBT, DBT, Family Therapy, EMDR, Adolescent and Family Therapy, and is an alumni of the FBI Citizen’s Academy.
Lori enjoyed serving 5 years as a board member of the Baltimore Child Abuse Center, is trained through the Ferentz Institute and Evergreen as a Certified Trauma Specialist, IVAT (Institute on Violence Abuse and Trauma) and AFCC (Association of Family and Conciliation Courts), and yearly conferences and trainings. Lori is a volunteer as a lead on a subcommittee for the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative for behavioral health and is co leading a pilot program providing pro bono mental health treatment for two Maryland jails. In her years working in Baltimore City in the Mayor’s Office on Criminal Justice Lori created and led the city’s first Human Trafficking Task Force and created the first national SOFT SVU interview rooms for victims of sexual crimes- to watch the press conference click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=EtLbkr81VzQ
She provides pro bono trauma trainings for the public defenders office in Baltimore City and the Maryland Bar Association lawyers.
Lori’s extensive work experience includes: John’s Hopkins Child Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital, Sheppard Pratt Hospital, St. Vincent’s Villa, the Mayor’s Office on Criminal Justice, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, adult residential centers and her private practice, Untangled Roads, LLC. Her life’s work is guided by a core of compassion, empathy, and learning with hope as an instrument of transformation. Lori believes that within trauma there is an anchor of hope to hold and guide you as a beacon of healing.
Lori adores her three beloved sons, her beloved husband, and their adorable dog, Parky. Lori is an avid outdoor enthusiast and enjoys spending downtime gardening, reading, cooking, biking, theatre and time with her family. Living for her family and doing what she can to help others while advocating for social justice is what she lives for and is her life’s work.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Victor Frankl
Lori Lickstein 