Lori Zaspel (she/her) is a clinical social worker serving the greater Philadelphia area who specializes in grief, medical social work, and end of life issues. She received her masters in social work from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and her LCSW in 2021. In addition to private grief practice, she works full-time as a therapist at CVS Health, and is a co-founder and death doula with the Philly Death Doula Collective. She utilizes relational-cultural, humanistic, feminist, narrative, and constructivist approaches in her work and is trained in Level 1 – EMDR by EMDRIA-HAP.

Lori is a white, cis, queer woman living in West Philadelphia with her partner, kooky dog, and ancient cat. She strives to operate with an anti-racist and anti-capitalist lens and center social justice in her therapeutic work as well as in her life.