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Online therapist

Bola Alimi

Calm, practical support for family stress

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
5 years
Licensed in
South Carolina, Georgia
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Bola

Bola Alimi is a licensed professional counselor who offers straightforward support for people facing relationship and family stresses. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and address issues like infidelity or trauma. Her style aims to make conversations feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone.

Bola welcomes clients with warmth and respect as they talk through hard moments and set small, realistic goals.

Background and approach

Bola uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on solution-focused techniques to build on what already works in a person’s life. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and needs support finding their own reasons to change.

With five years of experience, Bola has worked with matters such as depression, addictions, bipolar mood concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and parenting stress. She also addresses challenges like social anxiety, compassion fatigue, and blended family issues. Her background includes helping people cope after abuse or domestic violence and repair intimacy strains.

Bola holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, listed as SC LPC 7284 and GA LPC LPC012500. She practices from South Carolina and conducts sessions in English. She approaches therapy as a partnership and focuses on clear, doable strategies rather than jargon.

Clients can expect a practical, steady approach that balances empathy with action. Bola encourages perseverance and supports people as they build healthier routines and relationships.

Online approaches that focus on problems and solutions

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people notice and change thoughts and actions that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and mood concerns by breaking issues into small, manageable steps.

Motivational interviewing is a conversational style that helps someone find their own reasons to change. It can be useful when someone feels stuck with habits like substance use or when motivation is low.

Solution-focused therapy centers on identifying what already works and building on those strengths. Sessions focus on setting short-term goals and testing small changes that can make daily life easier.

Bola treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will discuss goals and preferences and suggest which methods might fit best. Together, therapist and client adjust the plan over time based on how things are going.

Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Those options provide flexibility for parents balancing schedules, allow steady contact between sessions, and support progress without travel.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Motivational Interviewing

A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.

Solution-Focused Therapy

Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Bola help with?
She works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, anxiety and depression, parenting stress, addictions, and intimacy-related problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach is practical and collaborative, using clear steps, goal-setting, and conversational techniques to address thoughts and behaviors that cause distress.
What background and experience does she have?
Bola has five years of counseling experience and has helped people with issues like learned helplessness, trauma recovery, and relationship repair.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with credentials SC LPC 7284 and GA LPC LPC012500 and is based in South Carolina.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the client’s needs.
How are costs and getting started handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session.

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Experience
5 years
Licensed
South Carolina, Georgia
Languages
English

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