Linnea Borer, LICSW

Linnea Borer is a licensed clinical social worker who practices in Minnesota. She holds a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential - LICSW - and brings five years of clinical experience to her work. Linnea focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, depression, ADHD, relationship concerns, and trauma. She uses practical methods meant to fit into everyday life.

Clients can expect straightforward conversation and clear steps to try between sessions. Linnea emphasizes each person's strengths and life story when setting goals. She listens for what matters most and helps people break concerns into manageable pieces.

Her approach blends cognitive behavioral ideas with attachment-based thinking and motivational interviewing. That combination helps people change unhelpful thoughts, understand relationship patterns, and find personal motivation for change. She also draws on narrative and solution-focused tools when they match a person's goals.

Linnea works with a wide range of concerns including grief, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, bipolar symptoms, and parenting stress. She also offers support around adoption and foster care topics, aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family dynamics, body image, cancer-related stress, and end-of-life care.

Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on small steps that add up. Linnea encourages people to bring real-life problems to the room and plans together how to move forward. She aims to make starting therapy feel doable rather than overwhelming.

How Linnea’s Approaches Work Online

Linnea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT focuses on small, practical experiments that can reduce anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems in daily life.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at relationship patterns that shape how people connect and respond to stress. This approach helps when worries stem from trust, closeness, or caregiving relationships. Motivational Interviewing is another tool she uses to help people find their own reasons to make changes and stick with them.

Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. Linnea collaborates with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and comfort level. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to meet in ways that suit their schedule. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or shorter exchanges between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to maintain continuity of care.