Lani Stoner
Experienced therapist focused on practical change
LMFT California
- Experience
- 27 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Lani
Lani Stoner is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, depression, and a wide range of life adjustments.
Background and approach
With 27 years of professional experience in mental health, she offers an engaged, directive style that aims to help clients move toward clearer functioning, improved relationships, and renewed hope. Her background spans county and agency work as well as independent practice, with experience across ages from children to older adults and work with chronically mentally ill adults.
She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology and completed gerontology coursework, and she draws on practical training that supports work with trauma, chronic pain and illness, caregiver stress, blended families, fertility and cancer-related concerns, and other complex, co-occurring issues.
Therapeutic work with Stoner blends client-centered listening with structured methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness techniques, along with narrative and solution-focused elements when helpful. She offers in-person-informed clinical judgment translated into online formats, and she emphasizes collaboration to identify goals and the strategies most likely to help each person reach them.
Therapeutic Approaches and How They Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and treating the person with respect and acceptance, which helps clients explore feelings and values while building a strong therapeutic relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and stress; it is practical and goal-oriented, often including specific exercises between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and awareness practices that can reduce reactivity and improve coping with chronic pain, stress, and emotional upheaval.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and then recommend and adapt methods such as CBT or mindfulness techniques to fit the situation. Over time the plan can be adjusted based on progress and changing priorities so the work stays focused and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible access to these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats allow people to attend sessions from home or while balancing work and caregiving responsibilities, and they make it easier to maintain consistency in treatment despite busy schedules or geographic constraints. Licensed professionals can use the same structured tools and conversational interventions online to support meaningful change.
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Experience
27+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English