About Sartreina
Dr. Sartreina Dottin welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or parenting challenges. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience and listens with patience and respect.
Her style is warm and interactive and she aims to help people take workable steps toward feeling better. She draws on straightforward cognitive-behavioral techniques to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses psychodynamic ideas to help people understand patterns that repeat in relationships and life choices. Treatment is shaped around each person's needs and goals rather than a fixed script. Dr.
Dottin has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, panic attacks, social anxiety, and phobias. She also supports those coping with caregiver stress, aging concerns, HIV/AIDS related issues, and prejudice or discrimination. Her experience includes teaching and advising students in the behavioral sciences for over nine years.
Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings and honest conversation about what is getting in the way. She respects cultural differences and attends to multicultural concerns when they affect daily life. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
If you are considering therapy, she offers a calm, nonjudgmental space to begin. Dr. Dottin helps people clarify goals, build coping skills, and move toward the changes they want.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Dottin commonly uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new actions. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, phobias, and mood concerns because it focuses on concrete changes you can practice between sessions.She also uses client-centered therapy which centers the conversation on your experience and priorities. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and shaping goals together so the work fits your values and pace.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She will collaborate with you to decide whether CBT, client-centered methods, psychodynamic ideas, or a blend best match your needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well when you want face-to-face conversation; phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow brief, flexible contacts between scheduled appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy family routines and to maintain consistent contact as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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