Grace Wolbrink, LMSW

Grace Wolbrink is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 35 years of professional experience. She works with adults who are carrying grief, stress, anxiety, trauma, or a sense of meaninglessness and wants to help them move toward clearer direction and steadier days.

Grace has worked in hospitals, military settings, and a range of community spaces across the United States and internationally. That long history gives her experience with grief, burnout, post-traumatic stress, and caregiver strain. She also supports people navigating career questions, money stress, and life transitions.

Her style is plainspoken and practical. Sessions focus on habits, thinking patterns, and concrete steps clients can try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the approaches she uses to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and manage anxiety and depression.

Grace also draws on Jungian ideas and narrative work to help people make sense of life stories and find deeper purpose. She blends therapeutic tools with coaching techniques to build momentum and steady progress rather than endless planning.

Clients can expect a collaborative, goal-focused process that emphasizes doable actions. Grace aims to help people get clearer about what they want, identify what is holding them back, and take small courageous steps toward a life that feels more aligned and manageable.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Grace commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach breaks problems into manageable pieces and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. She also uses Narrative Therapy to help people tell and reframe their life stories so old patterns feel different and new choices become clearer. These methods adapt well to remote sessions and to practical homework between meetings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Grace treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients pick strategies that fit their goals, needs, and personal style. Together they decide whether to focus on skills practice, story work, coaching actions, or a mix of methods and then refine the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video can support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy or changing schedules while keeping the work focused and practical.