About Laine
Laine Kolesar is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Ohio who focuses on practical, person-centered support. She draws on five years of clinical experience to help people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. Laine uses clear, down-to-earth language in sessions and aims to make the work feel approachable and doable.
Laine blends client-centered listening with methods from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based approaches. She helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns, practice simple grounding skills, and set small, attainable goals.
How Laine works
Sessions are collaborative and driven by what matters most to each person. Her focus areas include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, coping with life changes, trauma and addiction recovery, and intimacy-related issues. She also works with concerns such as caregiver stress, codependency, body image, attachment and abandonment issues, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
Laine aims to help people build better emotional understanding and stronger day-to-day coping. Typical work includes skills practice, clarifying values and goals, and short-term solution-focused planning when helpful. She often combines present-focused strategies with gentle reflection on past patterns that affect current relationships.
The tone in sessions is warm, curious, and practical. Laine provides therapy through video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
People interested in starting work with her select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
Laine lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Laine works with
The areas below are the ones Laine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Using practical approaches in online therapy
Laine often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people manage everyday problems. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective, helping them feel heard and guiding goals they choose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and provides hands-on tools to shift patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or relationship strain.Finding the right approach is usually collaborative. Laine will talk with the person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. She invites feedback and works with each person to choose techniques that fit their pace and preferences rather than applying a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging suits ongoing brief reflections or between-session notes. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while using the clinical approaches described above.
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