About Hallie
Hallie Orton is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and eating or body image concerns. She offers clear, practical support for those coping with grief, trauma, life changes, and questions about self-esteem. Hallie works online using messaging and focuses on building everyday skills that make life feel more manageable.
Her approach is down-to-earth and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills for handling panic, obsessive thoughts, and overwhelming emotions. Hallie uses techniques that help people notice patterns and try new responses. Hallie blends several evidence-informed approaches to match what each person needs.
She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and increase flexibility. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop alternatives. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete coping tools for intense emotion.
Hallie holds LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and LICSW. She has four years of clinical experience and practices from Minnesota. Sessions are offered in English and carried out through messaging on the platform.
Practical concerns like managing chronic illness, family conflict, or panic attacks are part of her focus areas. Hallie also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment, guilt, and life purpose. She helps people build skills so daily life feels steadier and more doable.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Hallie uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that align with goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical alternatives. CBT emphasizes skill practice between contacts, such as experimenting with new behaviors and tracking moods to reduce panic and obsessive thoughts.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Hallie will discuss goals and preferences and then tailor techniques to each person. That collaborative process helps decide whether ACT, CBT, or other tools will best support the client’s needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists and clients work face-to-face when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a brief check-in fits a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching and skill practice between longer sessions, and can make it easier to check in more often.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota
- Languages
- English