About Larry
Larry Blair is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 38 years of practice in Minnesota. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and concerns about self-esteem and depression. Larry approaches each person as the expert of their own story and looks for strengths to build on.
He uses straightforward conversations to help people clarify what matters to them and what they want to change. Sessions often include practical strategies to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and handle conflict more effectively.
Background and approach
He aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who may be nervous about starting therapy. In practice, Larry draws on cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on mindfulness methods to reduce reactivity. He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people identify values and take small steps toward them.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques appear when clients want targeted, goal-oriented sessions. He has worked across many concerns related to relationships and life transitions, including communication problems, divorce and separation, caregiver stress, and workplace issues. He also addresses deeper wounds such as abandonment, guilt and shame, and post-traumatic stress.
Larry keeps language simple and sessions practical. He helps people set achievable goals, try specific actions between meetings, and track what works. That steady, commonsense approach can help people regain balance and move forward.
For people in Minnesota seeking help with anxiety or related struggles, Larry offers years of experience and a calm, matter-of-fact style.
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters and take small steps toward those values despite worry or fear. It can be useful for long-term anxiety, low mood, and struggles with purpose.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often includes practical exercises to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and manage workplace or social stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and can blend techniques over time as needs change.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how you meet. Video calls are useful for a full-session conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit into a busy day for shorter check-ins. These options make it easier to keep continuity and try different approaches without extra travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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