About Corrie
Corrie O'Toole is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California with four decades of professional experience. She offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the aftermath of trauma and abuse. Corrie aims to make the first step feel manageable and steady for anyone considering help.
She creates a straightforward space where thoughts and feelings can be voiced without judgment. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small, usable steps to reduce distress.
Background and approach
Corrie uses relationship-focused methods alongside mindfulness and brief solution work to help people clarify what matters to them. Her background includes long experience working with relationship challenges and addictions, as well as concerns around parenting, sleep, eating, and self-esteem. She also addresses caregiver strain, chronic illness or pain, and issues tied to aging or blended family dynamics.
The work often balances emotional processing with practical coping skills. People who bring career stress, compassion fatigue, or feelings of emptiness will find a pragmatic approach that blends reflection with action. Corrie adapts tools from hypnotherapy and the Gottman and Imago approaches when relational patterns are central to the difficulty.
Progress is measured in concrete changes that matter day to day. Sessions can include coaching-style conversation or slower, reflective work depending on the person's needs. Corrie welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Online approaches that focus on relationships and change
Corrie uses the Gottman Method to look at how partners communicate and solve problems, helping identify interaction patterns and build practical skills for better teamwork. Hypnotherapy is used as a calm, focused way to shift habits and reduce anxiety by guiding attention and relaxation toward specific goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Corrie will discuss each option and help decide which methods match a person’s goals, life situation, and preferences. That collaborative decision is revisited over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. This range makes it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English