About Spela
Spela Bertoncelj is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She centers sessions on what matters most to each person and helps them handle stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, and changes in life. She uses straightforward conversation and listening to understand a client's strengths and goals.
Spela draws on approaches such as client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior methods to build skills for day-to-day challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize simple tools people can use between appointments. Her background includes four years of professional experience working with people dealing with self-esteem, motivation, and confidence issues. She also supports concerns like grief, attachment wounds, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and isolation.
Spela pays attention to practical problems such as money stress, communication breakdowns, and life transitions. Clients can expect a collaborative style that values their perspective. Conversations are aimed at identifying priorities, testing small changes, and tracking what works.
The therapist highlights strengths and slow, steady progress rather than quick fixes. Spela practices in Montana as an LCSW, and she offers services in English. She accepts international clients and provides sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
The goal is to make therapy fit daily life and to help people build coping skills that last.
How therapeutic approaches inform online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following a person's lead to build trust and goals. In practice this means sessions focus on what the client says matters most and on using their strengths to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches specific skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, offers concrete coping skills for strong emotions and problems with impulsivity and anger.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process can include mixing client-centered listening with CBT skill work or DBT strategies when those tools match goals for reducing anxiety or managing stress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief support, scheduling, or practicing short skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work on stress and anxiety from different settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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