About Laurie
Laurie Jolly is a licensed clinical social worker (LMSW) in Michigan with 38 years of experience. She focuses on practical strategies that help people manage everyday stress and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Laurie also helps people handling relationship and family strain, grief, and issues related to ADHD.
Her approach centers on listening first and building on each person's strengths. She treats the person as the expert in their life while offering tools to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Laurie uses straightforward methods so people can try skills between sessions. Laurie blends several evidence-informed methods to suit different needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small action steps.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Attachment-based ideas guide work on close relationships and communication patterns. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotion regulation and tolerating strong feelings are needed.
Client-centered care means the pace and focus come from the person in therapy, not a preset agenda. Laurie aims to make sessions practical, calm, and goal-focused. People come to her for a wide range of life challenges - from parenting strain and caregiver stress to struggles with intimacy, work direction, or recovering from trauma.
She supports people seeking clearer priorities, steadier moods, and more effective ways to handle conflict and loss.
How Laurie’s approaches work online
Laurie uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify what matters to them and take small, practical steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. This approach can help with stress, low motivation, and navigating life transitions.She also applies Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to improve how people relate to others and to reduce repeated patterns of hurt in close relationships. Client-Centered Therapy guides the tone of sessions, placing the person's goals and pacing at the center of the work so sessions stay focused on what matters most.
Finding the right method is part of the process. Laurie works collaboratively to match approaches to a person's goals, needs, and preferences. She will try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging work for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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