Laurie Orbeck, LICSW

Laurie Orbeck is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who brings 17 years of therapy experience to her practice in Minnesota. She started in social services and has spent nearly two decades offering therapy to teens and adults. Laurie focuses on helping people manage stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and life changes in clear, practical ways.

Her approach centers on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, with DBT skills, solution-focused techniques, and mindfulness woven in when helpful. She emphasizes a strengths-based perspective and uses motivational interviewing and trauma-informed thinking as needed. Sessions are aimed at building practical tools people can use between meetings.

Laurie tends to keep sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. She works with individuals on issues like addictions, parenting challenges, relationship and communication problems, mood and anxiety concerns, and coping after medical crises such as cancer or hospice-related stress. She also helps people facing isolation, career crossroads, and compassion fatigue.

In therapy she listens for existing strengths and helps people apply those strengths to current problems. Conversations usually lead to small, concrete steps and skills people can try right away. The tone is pragmatic and supportive rather than lecturing.

Laurie provides services in Minnesota and conducts sessions in English. She is not currently accepting international clients. If a reader wants to begin, they use the site’s Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule based on the therapist’s availability.

How therapy approaches shape online work

Laurie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which can help with anxiety, depression, and panic. DBT supplies concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, useful for impulsivity, anger, and relationship problems.

Finding the right approach is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will review your goals, try different tools, and adjust the plan to fit what helps you most. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to emphasize as work proceeds.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when people only need brief coaching, and reduce travel time for those balancing appointments. It also lets therapists share worksheets and skills exercises during or between sessions, so practical strategies from CBT and DBT can be reinforced at home.