About Corrie
Corrie O'Toole is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 40 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship challenges. Corrie aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and clear guidance.
Her style is straightforward and practical. She creates a space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Sessions are built around the client's goals and everyday concerns, not jargon or long lectures.
How Corrie works
Corrie draws on several approaches to fit different needs. She uses methods that help partners improve communication and reconnect. She also employs mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to help people manage emotions and find workable steps forward.
Across a long career she has helped people cope with addiction, compassion fatigue, and a wide range of life transitions. She also addresses issues like body image, chronic pain and illness, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to aging. Her work includes support for LGBT concerns and parenting strain.
Practical problems such as sleep, eating, anger, and career stress are part of her focus. Corrie emphasizes small, realistic changes that add up over time. She works collaboratively so people leave sessions with clear next steps.
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What Corrie works with
The areas below are the ones Corrie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Corrie uses the Gottman Method to help partners improve communication and reduce conflict through practical exercises and clearer patterns of interaction. That work often focuses on everyday conversations, rebuilding trust, and setting simple communication habits.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away by them. Mindfulness can support stress, anxiety, grief, and chronic pain by teaching short practices that fit into daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Corrie works with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts techniques as needed. This collaborative way helps clients try approaches and keep what works best for them.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face for relationship and communication exercises. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief coaching, written reflections, or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied needs.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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