About Betina
Betina Bolin is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and supports those coping with depression, trauma, relationship strain, addiction, grief, and changes in life. Her approach centers on understanding each person's situation and building practical steps forward.
She uses a client-centered stance that focuses on the person's goals and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is an important part of her work and is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test more balanced ways of thinking.
Background and approach
She also draws on EMDR for trauma-related concerns and mindfulness strategies to reduce stress in the moment. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Betina often helps people break big problems into smaller steps and measures progress along the way.
Motivational Interviewing is used when people are unsure about change or need help finding internal motivation. Over the years she has worked with a wide range of challenges including bipolar disorder, eating and intimacy-related issues, anger and career concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses aging and geriatric issues, immigration concerns, chronic illness, and end-of-life topics when they arise.
Betina holds LCSW credentials in Arizona and Missouri and offers services in English. She accepts international clients and works with people through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows the therapist's availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people set their own goals; online sessions let the therapist follow the client's lead while working on what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors; it adapts well to video or messaging formats where homework and thought records can be shared and reviewed. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for trauma processing and can be offered remotely with careful planning and pacing for the person's comfort.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, concerns, and past experiences and then recommend methods to try. Adjustments are made as therapy progresses so the approach fits the person's needs and preferences rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when travel or scheduling would otherwise be a barrier.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Missouri, Arizona, California
- Languages
- English
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