Meet Lior
Leora (Lior) Effinger-Weintraub, MSW, LICSW (MN)
practicing on occupied ancestral lands of the Dakota people (Minneapolis, MN)
they/them
I am a mixed race, queer, trans, nonbinary, invisibly disabled, and pagan human, who came to my clinical social work practice after a previous career in public service. One of my core values is authenticity and I focus on using my identity and presence to create a true safe place for my clients, honoring and making space for all of the intersections of our being human in this complicated world. I work from a trauma-informed, harm reduction, and attachment-based perspective, and leverage my liberatory beliefs to dismantle the pathologizing stance of the medical model. Our deepest hurts come from relationships and our truest healing can come through relationships. The goal of my practice is to offer my clients an experience of a true other within a securely attached therapeutic alliance, unlocking their potential to manifest their most resourced self. The modality I use most is Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and I am a level-2 trained AEDP therapist. I specialize in working with LGBTQ+ clients, especially those with complex experiences of trauma, dissociation, and plurality. Together with my clients, we explore identity, relationships, and how to heal within a societal structure that oppresses us.