About Hallie
Hallie Orton is a licensed clinical social worker who supports people dealing with stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward help for everyday struggles like low mood, trouble coping with change, and relationship or family tension. Hallie writes in clear, compassionate language and focuses on practical steps people can use between messages.
Hallie uses brief, skill-focused tools to build coping strategies and improve daily functioning. She leans on approaches that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new behaviors, and clarify personal values.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on what can be tried right away. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including eating and body image issues, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD-related challenges, and panic symptoms. She also addresses themes like abandonment, attachment wounds, guilt and shame, and persistent obsessive or compulsive thoughts.
Hallie aims to make space for difficult feelings while helping people take small steps forward. Hallie holds both LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and LICSW, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, credentials and practices from Minnesota. She has four years of clinical experience supporting people through change and crises.
Sessions are offered in English and organized to fit into busy routines. Care typically starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on availability. Messages are used to check progress and share exercises, and Hallie encourages people to use the tools discussed between contacts to build lasting skills.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take action toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and trouble making changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, panic, and obsessive thoughts.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Hallie will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying a few techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is helpful for more in-depth conversations, phone works well for a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for regular support and written exercises. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy schedule and to keep practicing skills between contacts.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota
- Languages
- English
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