Lori is the director of The Center for Mindfulness in Fresno. She specializes in mindfulness-based psychotherapy which marries the practice of mindfulness meditation with cognitive skill building to help relieve anxiety, depression, addictions, emotional eating, multi-task stress, obsessive thinking and relationship challenges.

As an ordained Zen lay practitioner, Lori teaches and develops mindfulness and psychotherapy training workshops for therapists and the general public including Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Awareness and Compassion Training (MB-ACT). Her practice is recognized by the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Stress Reduction Clinic. She has participated in numerous trainings with mindfulness mentors: Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, Marsha Linehan, John Welwood and Tara Brach. Lori teaches courses in Counseling, Psychotherapy and Mindfulness at CSU, Fresno.