Eric Bolella
Trauma-focused, practical therapy for parents
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Eric
Eric Bolella is a licensed marriage and family therapist who draws on a trauma-focused, systemic approach to help people navigate family and parenting challenges. He uses practical, solution-focused conversations and telehealth to make therapy fit into busy lives. Eric seeks to create a straightforward space where parents and individuals can talk about stress, grief, and relationship struggles without jargon.
He trained at Central Connecticut State University and earned a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2013.
Background and approach
Over the past decade he has worked in outpatient settings in New Britain, Connecticut, serving inner-city youth and low-income families. He has clinical experience running therapeutic group homes for adolescent boys and girls. Eric also managed a state-funded nonprofit program addressing domestic violence.
That work emphasized changing abusive behaviors and repairing family bonds to reduce the chance of state intervention. Those experiences shaped his practical focus on safety, communication, and accountability. In independent practice he uses a mix of approaches.
He blends client-centered listening, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-informed work. He also draws from narrative methods and Internal Family Systems influences to help people name patterns and shift them. Common issues he addresses include trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, grief, relationship and intimacy problems, and caregiver stress.
He works with clients interested in clearer communication, managing big emotions, and coping with life transitions. Sessions are offered via telehealth to fit around family life.
Practical approaches for online family and parenting work
Eric uses client-centered methods to create a calm, listening-first space where parents and individuals can speak about what matters most to them. This approach focuses on understanding each person’s experience and helping them find their own solutions rather than imposing answers.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching specific skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Eric collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into family schedules, handle sudden needs between sessions, and keep continuity during life transitions. The variety of formats supports different comfort levels and practical needs while maintaining a consistent therapeutic relationship with a licensed professional.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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