Laurie Jolly
Practical family-focused therapy with steady support
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Laurie
Laurie Jolly is a licensed clinical social worker with 38 years of experience. She uses grounded, practical methods to help families and parents facing stress, relationship strain, and life transitions. Laurie speaks plainly and focuses on what will help a household move forward day to day.
Her approach centers on collaboration. She treats each person as the expert in their own story and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions emphasize clear tools and steady support rather than long lectures or jargon.
Background and approach
Laurie aims to make change feel manageable and believable. In therapy she draws on several evidence-based approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral methods, and skills from dialectical behavior work. Those approaches help with anxiety, depression, trauma, and patterns that repeat across relationships.
She also brings client-centered listening to keep conversations respectful and focused. Laurie has worked with people dealing with parenting challenges, blended family issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, grief and loss, addictions, and intimacy or relationship concerns. She also addresses mood and panic-related problems, ADHD, and the strain of careers or caregiving roles.
Her experience includes helping clients cope with domestic violence, separation and divorce, and veteran-related issues. Sessions are offered in English and Laurie accepts international clients. She practices in Michigan as an LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker - and adapts strategies to fit each family’s needs.
Her style is steady, practical, and focused on everyday improvements.
Online approaches that fit family life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and decide what matters most to them. It teaches small, practical moves that align daily choices with values and can ease anxiety and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feeling and behavior. It helps partners and family members understand patterns and develop safer, more reliable ways of connecting.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Laurie works collaboratively to match methods to your goals and preferences. She listens to what you need from parenting support or relationship work and adjusts tools so they fit your family routine.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions around childcare, work, and busy schedules. They also let families continue steady work between in-person meetings while using the same therapeutic approaches and skills.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Laurie
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point