About Lori
Lori Rolf is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with LCSW and LICSW credentials and 18 years of clinical experience. She practices from Minnesota and focuses on practical strategies for stress and anxiety. Lori aims to build a respectful, down-to-earth partnership with each person who reaches out.
Her approach centers on listening first. She uses client-centered methods to understand what matters to the individual. Then she combines focused skill work from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches to help manage strong emotions and changing patterns.
Background and approach
Lori has worked with a wide range of concerns, including depression, substance use, eating disorders, grief, trauma, relationship struggles, and career stress. She also helps people dealing with compassion fatigue, identity and LGBT concerns, and issues related to women's health. The goal is to create small, doable changes that add up over time.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. Lori helps people set clear, realistic goals and practices skills between sessions. She draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas to support motivation and forward movement.
She values honesty, empathy, and clients' own choices. Lori encourages people to bring what matters most to sessions and to work at a pace that feels manageable. Her style is practical and supportive, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Lori uses evidence-based methods in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard and guides the work toward goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems like anxiety and depression going and teaches practical tools to change them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lori will discuss options and tailor methods based on each person's needs, goals, and preferences. The process is collaborative and adjusts as goals change over time.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video works well for in-depth sessions and skill practice, phone calls can be useful when video is difficult, live chat is quick for check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or between-session coaching. These options help people access care with more flexibility and make it easier to keep consistent momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, California
- Languages
- English
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