Laurie Orbeck, LICSW

Laurie Orbeck is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota with 17 years of clinical experience. She centers her work in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) while integrating elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, mindfulness practices, and a strengths-based outlook to help clients navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, trauma, and a wide range of life transitions. Laurie works with adults and teens and draws on practical skills-building and collaborative planning to address issues such as parenting challenges, communication problems, intimacy-related concerns, and mood or impulse-related conditions including bipolar disorder and ADHD.

Laurie approaches therapy as a partnership that builds on each person’s existing resources and abilities. Her style emphasizes measurable coping strategies, emotional regulation techniques, and goal-oriented interventions tailored to the client’s needs - whether the focus is on managing acute symptoms like panic and obsessive-compulsive behaviors or on longer-term goals such as career direction, life purpose, or healing from family-of-origin wounds. Clients seeking support for end-of-life caregiving, hospice and bereavement needs, veteran-related issues, or compassion fatigue will find therapy grounded in practical tools and steady clinical experience.

As an LICSW, Laurie brings both clinical training and years of practice to help clients develop skills that reduce distress and increase functioning. She aims to create a respectful, strengths-focused environment where people can identify priorities, practice new responses, and move toward tangible change.