About Betina
Betina Bolin offers help for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, bipolar symptoms, addiction, anger, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports people coping with life changes, career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and eating or body image issues. Betina practices from a social work perspective and brings 16 years of professional experience to her work.
She uses a person-focused style that starts with listening. Sessions are organized around each person’s goals.
Background and approach
Betina helps clients notice patterns between thoughts, feelings, and actions and then tries practical ways to change those patterns. She values empathy and treats people with dignity and respect. Her sessions often use cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thinking.
She also draws on client-centered conversation, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing to spark change, and EMDR for trauma-related work when appropriate. Treatment is adapted to each person rather than following a single script. Betina holds an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
She is licensed in Missouri and has many years working with varied concerns including aging and geriatric issues, autism spectrum differences, chronic illness and pain, and end-of-life planning. Her approach includes practical steps people can try between sessions. People can expect a collaborative process.
Betina helps set clear goals, tracks progress, and adjusts strategies as needed. The focus is on helping each person build more control, clearer choices, and steady steps toward the life they want.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and priorities. It involves open conversation, reflective listening, and working at the client’s pace to identify goals and choices that feel meaningful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. In online sessions this can mean identifying unhelpful thinking, practicing new ways of thinking, and trying short exercises between meetings to change behavior patterns.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used for clients who carry strong emotional reactions from past events. When appropriate, elements of EMDR are adapted for remote work and combined with grounding and cognitive strategies to reduce distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are reviewed and changed when something is not working.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people read expressions and use visual tools. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help make therapy more accessible while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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