Lani Stoner, LMFT

Lani Bain Stoner is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) whose career spans decades of practice in community and private settings. She brings a breadth of experience working with individuals, couples, families and groups, and has focused much of her clinical work on chronic mental illness, trauma and relationship concerns. Growing up in a family of educators, she moved frequently and lived overseas during parts of her childhood and early adolescence before returning to the United States to finish school. Her academic training includes a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Chapman University and additional gerontology coursework completed at Sacramento State University.

Her professional path began after finishing graduate school in the mid 1970s and includes work in county and agency settings from the late 1970s through the early 2000s, with a major concentration on chronically mentally ill adults beginning in the early 1980s. Following public agency work, she maintained a private practice serving children, adolescents and adults in individual, couples and family therapy. At times caregiving responsibilities shaped the pace and focus of her practice, and she has also contributed online volunteer services to military and veteran populations.

Clinically she favors active, directive methods and brief therapy modalities while also supporting longer-term work when appropriate. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns - from stress, anxiety and depression to relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief and addiction, as well as specialty areas such as caregiver stress, chronic illness and aging-related issues. Stoner combines practical therapeutic strategies with attention to each person or family system to support improved functioning and quality of life.