Lori Rolf, LCSW, LICSW

Lori Rolf is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and related concerns. She is listed as LCSW and LICSW and practices from Minnesota. Her approach is grounded in practical strategies that parents and individuals can use day to day.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep problems going. Lori also draws on client-centered methods to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people set the pace and goals. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.

Many people come to her for help with addictions, grief, trauma and relationship strain. She also supports work on anger, self-esteem, eating concerns, and coping with big life changes. Additional focus areas include LGBT issues and women’s concerns.

In sessions she works with a collaborative plan focused on clear goals and skill building. Practical tools, short exercises, and homework are common parts of the work. Sessions are aimed at helping people make steady changes they can use outside of therapy.

Lori emphasizes a respectful partnership. She values the choices people make and works alongside them to build skills, reduce distress, and move toward clearer priorities and better daily functioning.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Many people find Cognitive Behavioral Therapy useful because it focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and some eating or mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s choices and experience, offering a listening, respectful space to set goals and move at a comfortable pace. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds specific skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness when emotions feel overwhelming.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods like CBT, client-centered work, or DBT skills to those goals. That way the plan matches what a person wants to change and how they prefer to work.

Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or when hands-free time is needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing notes and brief support. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, practice skills between meetings, and use the communication style that works best.