Linnea Borer

Linnea Borer is a licensed clinical social worker in Minnesota who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, loss, trauma, and parenting concerns. She uses a straightforward, compassionate approach and values the strengths each person brings to the room. Linnea emphasizes practical steps and honest conversation to help people move forward.

With five years as a licensed clinician, Linnea focuses on real problems that show up in daily life. She talks through coping strategies for anxiety and depression, supports people grieving a loss, and addresses the fallout from trauma and abuse. She also helps people navigate parenting challenges and relationship strain.

Her work includes attention to a wide range of life issues such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, cancer, body image, and coping with big life changes. Hospice and end-of-life counseling is listed among her areas of focus for people facing serious illness or loss.

Linnea draws on several practical methods in sessions, including attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and solution-focused methods. She aims to match the approach to what each person needs rather than using one fixed method.

People who choose Linnea can expect calm, direct conversation and concrete options to try between sessions. She encourages small, manageable steps and checks in on what is actually working as progress unfolds.

Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online

Attachment-based work looks at important relationships and how early bonds shape current feelings and reactions; it can help people who struggle with trust, closeness, or repeated relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical changes in thinking and behavior to reduce anxiety, depressive symptoms, and stress-related patterns. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to build motivation for change by exploring a person’s values and goals in a respectful conversation.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying options, adjusting the plan, and keeping what helps most.

Confirm current session options before booking, as specific online formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing commute time and allowing appointments during work breaks or evenings. They can also allow shorter check-ins when a quick touchpoint is helpful, or sessions without video when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera.