About Hallie
Hallie Orton meets people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes. She helps clients sort through eating concerns, low self-esteem, grief, and the impact of trauma in small, practical steps. Hallie uses straightforward conversation and steady support to help people feel more able to cope day to day.
She draws on several evidence-based approaches to tailor work to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns.
How Hallie works
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and making space for hard feelings while moving toward goals. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Hallie has four years of clinical experience and holds LCSW and LICSW credentials, listed as ND LCSW and MN LICSW.
Her background includes helping people with family stress, communication problems, and complicated feelings like guilt, shame, and abandonment. She also supports those dealing with chronic illness, body image concerns, obsessive thoughts, panic, and ADHD-related struggles. Work with Hallie typically starts with a short match process and scheduling that fits the client.
Sessions can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference. Payment follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Sessions are offered in English and Hallie practices from Minnesota.
She does not accept international clients at this time.
Hallie lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Hallie works with
The areas below are the ones Hallie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Hallie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on spotting and testing thoughts that lead to anxiety or low mood, and then practicing small behavioral changes to improve daily functioning. ACT helps people identify what matters most to them and take actions toward those values even when difficult feelings are present.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. These are concrete tools people can use when feeling overwhelmed, experiencing panic, or facing intense urges and obsessive thoughts. Together these methods give practical steps as well as a focus on values and acceptance.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. Hallie will listen to a client's goals and try methods that fit their needs, adjusting as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together which skills or strategies to emphasize during sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use methods consistently between sessions.
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