About Laura
Laura Bollin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people dealing with anxiety and stress. She uses a straightforward, compassionate style to listen, encourage, and offer practical tools. Her approach is grounded and aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable.
She draws on 14 years of experience in counseling, hospice, and hospital settings. That background gives her a broad view of how illness, grief, work strain, and caregiving wear on people.
Background and approach
She treats each person as a whole, looking at emotional, spiritual, and practical factors that matter in real life. In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who want to make a change but feel stuck.
Sessions focus on small, realistic steps that fit into a client's life. Laura earned her Master of Social Work from Boise State University and holds LCSW and LICSW credentials. She describes herself as a spouse, Christian, ally, outdoors person, and animal lover, and she brings those personal perspectives into an accepting, nonjudgmental interaction.
People come to her for help with grief, relationship strain, workplace issues, compassion fatigue, low self-esteem, social anxiety, and life transitions. The work emphasizes practical coping strategies, clearer thinking, and steady progress toward goals.
How Laura’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot thoughts that make anxiety worse and test small behavior changes to see what helps. It is practical and often focuses on skills you can use between sessions to reduce worry and lift mood. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversation style that helps people find their own reasons to change and build momentum toward goals. It can be especially helpful when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels doable, then try methods that fit. Clients and the therapist decide together how to adjust techniques based on progress and comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, travel, or limited free time while keeping the focus on making steady, practical changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English
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