Lori Gottlieb
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{{short description|21st century American writer and psychotherapist}}
Lori Gottlieb (December 1966, Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American writer{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=%22lori+gottlieb%22|title=The New York Times - Search|website=www.nytimes.com|language=en|access-date=October 3, 2019|archive-date=December 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224182243/https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=%22lori+gottlieb%22|url-status=live}} and psychotherapist. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.{{Cite book|title=Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed |date=April 2, 2019 |isbn=978-1328662057 |last1=Gottlieb |first1=Lori}} She also writes the weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/category/dear-therapist/|title=Dear Therapist|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=October 3, 2019|archive-date=March 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330191923/https://www.theatlantic.com/category/dear-therapist/|url-status=live}} for The Atlantic and is the co-host of the iHeart Radio podcast "Dear Therapists." Her TED Talk was one of the most-watched talks of 2019.{{Citation|last=TED|title=The most popular talks of 2019 {{!}} TED Talks|url=https://www.ted.com/playlists/728/the_most_popular_talks_of_2019|language=en|access-date=November 26, 2020|archive-date=October 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025053527/https://www.ted.com/playlists/728/the_most_popular_talks_of_2019|url-status=live}}
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.{{Cite web|title=A Blonde's Bombshell |url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/a-blonde-s-bombshell |access-date=2021-09-30|website=stanfordmag.org|date=September 2002 |language=en}} She obtained a Masters of Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University in 2010.{{Cite web|title=Triple Booked {{!}} Pepperdine University|url=https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/2019/07/triple-booked/|access-date=2021-09-30 |website=www.pepperdine.edu}} She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.{{Cite web|title=CALIFORNIA BOARD OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES|url=https://search.dca.ca.gov/details/2001/LMFT/54049/a51f53881335bf7cd8649df7a8aeea15}}
Gottlieb was a commentator for National Public Radio{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/search?query=%22lori%20gottlieb%22&page=1 |title=NPR Search : NPR|website=www.npr.org|access-date=October 3, 2019}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://themoth.org/podcast/diavian-walters-and-lori-gottlieb|title=The Moth Podcast: Diavian Walters and Lori Gottlieb |website=The Moth|language=en-US|access-date=October 3, 2019|archive-date=October 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008061509/https://themoth.org/podcast/diavian-walters-and-lori-gottlieb|url-status=live}}
Her memoir/self-help book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone was being developed and adapted for television by Eva Longoria for ABC Network. {{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2019/07/23/therapy-lori-gottlieb-maybe-you-should-talk-someone/1805933001/ |title=Even therapists need therapists: Lori Gottlieb on being 'less afraid to go and talk to somebody' |first=Barbara |last=VanDenburgh |work=USA Today |access-date=March 29, 2021 |archive-date=August 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812075059/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2019/07/23/therapy-lori-gottlieb-maybe-you-should-talk-someone/1805933001/ |url-status=live }}
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Category:American non-fiction writers