Leora (Lior) Effinger-Weintraub, LICSW

(They/Them)

❌ Not accepting new clients

🗺️ Minnesota

💻 Telehealth Only

📅 Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm

🎂 16+

✉️ lior@edgeswellness.com

☎️ 612.405.8098

🎓 MSW, St. Catherine University, 2021

I am a trans/nonbinary (AFAB), queer, mixed race person, and a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW). I come to the work of therapy after a previous career in public service and conflict engagement. The work I did to support colleagues through crises as part of that job, the work I did with folks in conflict, and my experience with restorative justice, all led me to the field of social work. Joining others on the road through trauma into healing has become my life’s work and passion.

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. AEDP is a modality that leverages the power of connection and relationship to provide healing experiences and increase our capacity for secure attachment. I work to shine a light on emotional experience in a way that feels new, safe, grounded, and connected. Other modalities I use to support my work include Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Together, these modalities emphasize the role of interpersonal relationships, how attachment informs our minds and hearts, how important our emotional experiences are to healing, and how all of the many aspects of ourselves are vital to the journey we are on.

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.