Betina Bolin, LCSW

Betina Bolin is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of professional experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, relationship struggles, grief, and challenges tied to aging and geriatric issues. Her work is practical and goal oriented, with an emphasis on each person’s strengths and dignity.

She favors a client-centered approach that starts by listening to what matters most to the individual. From there she tailors sessions using tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and other methods. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings and on understanding how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect.

She describes empathy as central to her work and aims to truly understand a person’s perspective. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, collaborative goal-setting, and check-ins on progress. The therapist frames change as a process of strengthening self-direction and decision making.

Over 16 years she has worked with people encountering a wide range of concerns, including bipolar symptoms, ADHD, eating and body image struggles, chronic pain and illness, and end-of-life or hospice related issues. She also addresses communication problems, intimacy questions, career stress, and forgiveness or guilt.

Betina draws on evidence-informed techniques without insisting on a single method. She adapts the plan as needs shift and helps people build practical skills to manage daily life and major transitions.

Approaches that translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and working from a person’s own priorities. In teletherapy this means sessions start by identifying what the client most wants to change and then shaping each meeting around those goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thought patterns and practice different ways of thinking and behaving. CBT works well online because many exercises and homework tasks can be reviewed together during a session.

Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can be adjusted as progress is made and as life circumstances change.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. They also let people use mindfulness and CBT exercises in the environments where problems actually occur, which can make practice more relevant to daily life.