Larry Blair
Calm, steady guidance for family challenges
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Larry
Larry Blair is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 38 years of professional experience in Minnesota. He focuses on stress, anxiety, family matters, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and depression. He works in a straightforward way and aims to make beginning therapy easier for people who are hesitant or unsure.
Blair treats family concerns by listening first and asking practical questions. He helps people identify what matters to them and steps they can try at home.
Background and approach
He emphasizes clients' strengths and treats them as the expert on their own story. His approach combines problem-solving with skills practice. He draws on methods that help change unhelpful thoughts and build workable habits.
Sessions often include clear goals and small steps to try between meetings. Trauma work is handled with care and paced to each person. He uses therapy tools that focus on safety, grounding, and rebuilding a sense of control.
The pace is set by the client and what feels manageable. Blair also supports people facing life transitions like separation, caregiver stress, and workplace troubles. He helps sort priorities, improve communication, and reduce persistent worry.
The aim is to leave sessions with specific actions that move things forward.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while committing to chosen goals, which can reduce the hold of anxiety and low mood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and to build practical habits for stress, depression, and anxiety.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and pick or blend methods that fit. That process is collaborative and adjusts over time as needs change.
Online therapy makes scheduling easier and keeps work moving between sessions. Video calls let therapists and clients talk in real time, while phone sessions offer a simpler option. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins or coaching-like support. These options give flexibility for busy family schedules and for managing stress without traveling to appointments.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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