Welcome to the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic

Clinic News & Notes

The Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic is one of only a few community mental health centers remaining in Sonoma, Marin, and Napa counties, and we’ve fortunately never been dependent on state or county funding. This clinic has survived these past 20 years primarily through the sliding scale fees paid by our clients. (That, and some very
important individual and company donations). We provided over 7000 client hours
of therapy last year.

Our growth and relative stability in a time of widespread despair and chaos in the social service sector is a team effort of board members, staff and community supporters. We’re responding to what we see as a greatly increased need for affordable mental health care. Not just for the poor, but also for working and middle class families whose access to counseling is severely limited, if not gone, due to lost jobs, school cutbacks and the near elimination of public mental health services.

What's New at Lomi

We have leased and moved into a new building in downtown Santa Rosa and have the option to buy it!! We are in the midst of a Capital Campaign to raise the funds for the down payment. Buying the building will insure that Sonoma County will have low-fee quality mental health care in perpetuity.

Local People and Companies to the Rescue

We express our sincere thanks to Medtronic Foundation of Santa Rosa for their generous donation of $10,000 this year (2008-09). This donation goes to support our expanded Legacy Fund for Mental Health serving those who are homeless or can’t afford to pay for psychotherapy. We also recieve additional funds from the County
of Sonoma for our Legacy clients.

Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit gave us a grant this year for our Bilingual Therapy Project. We now have a Spanish-speaking therapist who provides mono- and bi-lingual counseling to clients both here at Lomi as well as in collaboration with the Center for HIV Prevention and Care.

We pledge to stay involved and to work for improved access to affordable mental health care for all. Please feel free to contact me any time to share your own thoughts and concerns, my email is ashore@lomi.org, telephone: 707-579-0465 Ext. 230.

Warm Regards,

Ayne Shore, MFT
Program Director

Lomi Clinic Staff

Thomas Pope, MFT
Clinical Director
Thomas co-founded Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic in 1987 and has served as its clinical director since then. In this capacity he is program director and group supervisor for the Lomi intern program. Thomas is a nationally recognized teacher of integrative mind-body psychotherapy and has given workshops around the world, including the Lomi Applied Somatics training course. Thomas maintains a private practice in Santa Rosa.

Debra J. White, Ph.D.
Staff Psychologist and Co-Director of Training
Debra J. White is a Licensed Psychologist and MFT who has been training and supervising interns since 1980. She was the Coordinator of the Intern Training Program and Staff Psychologist for the Sonoma State University Counseling Center from 1981 - 2001; and has also taught at The Saybrook Institute, Walden, Argosy, and the S.S.U. Counseling Program. Debra is an Approved Supervisor with CAMFT and the Center for Credentialing and Education. Currently, Debra is on the Core Faculty at Capella University and also maintains a private practice in Santa Rosa.

Ayne Shore, MFT
Program Director
Ayne brings to her position as Program Director a wide range of experience including a Business Degree with an emphasis in Marketing from UC Berkeley, over 10 years of Graphic Design experience, as well as 5 years at the Lomi Psychotherapy Clinic as an MFT intern and then licensed staff. She currently has a private psychotherapy practice in Santa Rosa where she specializes in working with trauma/abuse issues, grief and loss, life transitions, and relationship difficulties. She works with adolescents, adults and groups.

Theresa McNeil
Office Manager
Theresa joined the Lomi Clinic in the Fall of 2007. She applies her organizational and bookkeeping skills to help keep our doors open and clients served.

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To request information or ask questions about the clinic please email us.
To make a counseling appointment at the clinic, please call our intake line at 707.579.0465 EXT. 227
A counselor will be available or will return your call within 24 hrs.