Lori Gottlieb

21st century American writer and psychotherapist

Lori Gottlieb is an American writer^[1] and psychotherapist. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.^[2] She also writes the weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column^[3] for The Atlantic and is the co-host of the iHeart Radio podcast "Dear Therapists." Her TED Talk was one of the topmost watched talks of 2019.^[4]

Life and career

Gottlieb was born in Los Angeles in 1966. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1989, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.^[5] She obtained a Masters of Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University in 2010.^[6] She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.^[7]

Gottlieb was a commentator for National Public Radio^[8] and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. She told the story of how she had her son at The Moth mainstage show in Aspen, Colorado.^[9]

Her memoir/self-help book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is being developed and adapted for television by Eva Longoria for ABC Network. ^[10]

References

^ "The New York Times - Search". www.nytimes.com. Archived from the original on December 24, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ Gottlieb, Lori (April 2, 2019). Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed. ISBN 978-1328662057.
^ "Dear Therapist". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ TED, The most popular talks of 2019 | TED Talks, archived from the original on October 25, 2020, retrieved November 26, 2020
^ "A Blonde's Bombshell". stanfordmag.org. September 2002. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
^ "Triple Booked | Pepperdine University". www.pepperdine.edu. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
^ "CALIFORNIA BOARD OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES".
^ "NPR Search : NPR". www.npr.org. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ "The Moth Podcast: Diavian Walters and Lori Gottlieb". The Moth. Archived from the original on October 8, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ VanDenburgh, Barbara. "Even therapists need therapists: Lori Gottlieb on being 'less afraid to go and talk to somebody'". USA Today. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2021.