Laurie Jolly

Laurie Jolly is a Michigan-based licensed master social worker with 38 years of clinical experience. She centers her work on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and anger while supporting relationship and family concerns. Laurie encourages clients to notice their strengths and use them to face life’s hard moments. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and offers steady, practical support through change.

Laurie draws on several evidence-informed approaches to shape sessions. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive-behavioral tools to help people notice thoughts and take actions that match their values. Attachment-based ideas guide discussions about how early patterns affect current relationships. Dialectical behavior strategies and client-centered listening are used to build coping skills and emotional balance.

In sessions she helps people talk through grief, intimacy and self-esteem struggles, and complicated family or blended-family issues. She also supports people facing trauma, addiction concerns, caregiver stress, and moral injury related to military service. Laurie works with mood and panic symptoms, ADHD-related challenges, and questions about life purpose and career direction.

Her approach is practical and strengths-focused. She invites clients to set goals, practice new skills between meetings, and notice small changes over time. Laurie emphasizes clear communication and steady progress rather than quick fixes.

People who want a calm, experienced guide for managing strong emotions and relationship strain may find her style a good fit. Prospective clients should use the Start Therapy button to begin the matching process and schedule according to availability.

How Laurie’s approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite uncomfortable feelings. It is useful for worry, anger, life changes, and motivation challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and homework to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. That approach is often used for panic, depression, and stress management.

Finding the right blend of methods is part of the process. Laurie collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, pace, and daily life. She listens to concerns about what is realistic and adjusts the plan over time so the work fits the client rather than the other way around.

The therapist biography does not state which online session formats are provided, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten commute time, and allow for brief check-ins between longer sessions. It can also let people practice skills in the settings where they live and work, which helps transfer learning into daily routines.