About Pam
Pam Bolarinho, LICSW, brings two decades of social work and clinical leadership to her practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and relationship or family concerns. Pam speaks English and Portuguese and works from Massachusetts.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Pam listens first to understand what matters most, then helps people set clear goals. She uses familiar, hands-on techniques to address worry, mood shifts, grief, and problems with self-esteem or boundaries.
Background and approach
Her background is a mix of frontline clinical work and management. Pam began in community programs and child welfare, earned a Master of Social Work from Bridgewater State University, and later served in hospital and inpatient psychiatric leadership roles. That mix gave her experience with crisis response and long-term care alike.
Pam has also worked on community partnerships around suicide prevention, opioid response, human trafficking, and a co-response program with local police. Those initiatives focused on keeping people supported in the community rather than relying on emergency rooms. In sessions she draws on person-centered and strength-based ways of working.
She also uses cognitive and solution-focused tools to help people change unhelpful thinking and build daily routines. The overall aim is steady, achievable progress people can notice between visits.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on a person’s strengths. It helps people who feel overwhelmed or unsure where to start by making space to be heard and deciding priorities together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical steps to change daily patterns and reduce anxiety or low mood. Motivational Interviewing centers on what motivates a person to change, helping with goals like reducing substance use, improving self-care, or committing to new routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and current struggles, then suggest techniques to try. That plan can shift over time as you notice what helps and what doesn't, and decisions about methods are made together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual rapport, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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