Martha Sorenson, LICSW

Martha Sorenson is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, MN LICSW, with 12 years of clinical experience in Minnesota. She supports adults who are coping with addiction, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Martha also focuses on codependency, attachment issues, communication problems, and family of origin struggles.

Martha uses clear, practical talk in sessions. She helps people name how they get stuck in patterns and notice the effects of those patterns on daily life. Sessions tend to focus on skills people can try between meetings, not just conversation.

She works with people dealing with guilt, shame, isolation, and the fallout from domestic violence or divorce. Martha also sees people affected by drug and alcohol problems and by post-traumatic stress. Her approach addresses both feelings and the behaviors that follow them.

Martha draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. That means she mixes approaches that research has shown helpful for trauma, addiction, and relationship difficulty. She explains tools plainly and demonstrates how to use them in ordinary situations.

People who choose Martha usually want straightforward guidance and practical ways to set boundaries, reduce people-pleasing, and rebuild a sense of self. To begin, a short questionnaire and a first scheduled session are used to match goals to a plan of work.

Evidence-based approaches and online work