Lori Rolf

Lori Rolf is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She practices in Minnesota and brings a calm, accepting presence to sessions. Lori emphasizes practical skills and honest conversation to help clients move forward.

Her work is grounded in client-centered care that focuses on each person’s goals. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are woven in when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.

Lori has supported people facing addiction, eating concerns, grief, trauma, and compassion fatigue. She also pays attention to intimacy-related struggles, self-esteem, career stress, attention challenges, and issues commonly faced by women. She helps people talk through relationships and family concerns without making assumptions about their situation.

Sessions are collaborative and goal oriented. Lori helps clients set achievable steps and practices skills between meetings. Her style is straightforward, empathetic, and focused on what will change daily life.

She asks for courage from people who reach out, and she treats that step with respect. Prospective clients choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting partnership, helping people set goals that matter to them and guiding conversations at their pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses straightforward exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Lori will work together with each person to identify which methods fit best. That decision is based on the client’s needs, goals, and what feels most useful in everyday life rather than a one-size-fits-all method.

Confirm the current session options before booking, since formats are not specified in the profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so therapy can happen between other responsibilities. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, DBT skills, and client-centered conversations to work productively in remote sessions, focusing on practical steps people can use between meetings.