Corrie O'Toole, LCSW
Insightful relationship and stress-focused therapist
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
How Corrie works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 40
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Corrie
Corrie O'Toole is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience in California. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth work that helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and anger. Corrie creates a welcoming space where clients can speak plainly about their concerns and feel heard.
Her approach blends relationship work with mindfulness and solution-focused strategies. She uses the Gottman Method and Imago Relationship Therapy ideas when relationship patterns are part of the concern.
Background and approach
Corrie also integrates mindfulness practices to help people manage strong emotions in the moment. Clients can expect short-term tools alongside deeper conversational work. Corrie helps people set small, achievable goals and practices to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day coping.
She also offers guidance for those dealing with addiction, sleeping problems, and self-esteem struggles. Corrie brings experience supporting people through trauma, abuse, and major life losses. She attends to the practical effects these issues have on daily life, like work, parenting, and caregiving responsibilities.
Her style is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping people move toward clearer choices. As a clinician, Corrie aims to collaborate with each person to find what works for them. She listens for patterns, suggests experiments, and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
The emphasis is on usable steps that fit each person’s life.
What Corrie works with
Everything Corrie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Corrie's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Corrie lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How relationship work and mindfulness translate online
Corrie often draws on the Gottman Method to look at communication patterns and shared rituals in relationships; this approach helps people notice habits that contribute to conflict and practice clearer ways of connecting. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and calm strong emotion in the moment.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan together based on what helps. That process aims to match methods to the problem and to the person's rhythm of life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video gives face-to-face interaction for longer work, phone can fit a tight schedule or lower bandwidth, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other obligations.
Questions people ask about Corrie
What concerns does Corrie help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, anger, self esteem, career concerns, and related topics.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Corrie uses practical, conversational work that blends relationship techniques with mindfulness and solution-focused practices to help people make steady changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 40 years of professional work experience supporting people with a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is licensed as an LCSW in California.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session based on the therapist's availability.