Eric Bolella , LMFT

Eric Bolella is a licensed psychotherapist who earned a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Central Connecticut State University in 2013. He holds the LMFT credential - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - which signifies specialized training in working with individuals, couples, and families through relational and systemic lenses.

Early in his career he worked in outpatient settings supporting inner-city youth and low-income families in New Britain, Connecticut. He has served as a clinician in a therapeutic adolescent boys’ group home and managed a therapeutic adolescent girls’ group home. More recently he led a state-funded, non-profit clinical domestic violence program that focused on reforming abusive behaviors and repairing family bonds to help keep families together and reduce the need for state intervention. He currently maintains a private practice delivered via telehealth services.

Eric brings a systemic, trauma-focused orientation to his clinical work. His approach combines solution-focused strategies with a Socratic conversational style and draws influence from Internal Family Systems, Compassionate Inquiry, and narrative methods. He aims to balance practical, goal-oriented techniques with attention to inner experience and relational patterns. Areas of clinical strength include general life stress, grief and loss, depression and anxiety, trauma-related issues, intimate relationship challenges, and life cycle transitions.

Integrating Therapeutic Approaches into Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the therapist’s empathetic presence and the client’s own capacity for growth. In practice this means creating a nonjudgmental space where the individual’s priorities guide the work, which can help with issues like self-esteem, relationship concerns, and life transitions.

Solution-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying practical steps and building on existing strengths to create change. It is goal-oriented and often helps people manage stress, navigate relationship challenges, and move through periods of uncertainty by concentrating on what works now and what can be tried next.

Mindfulness Therapy introduces simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment awareness. These techniques can support coping with anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, and ongoing stress by helping people notice patterns and choose different responses.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Eric will work with each person to explore goals, preferences, and needs, and adapt methods so therapy fits the individual rather than forcing a single model.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility - sessions can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - allowing therapy to fit around work, family, and other commitments while maintaining continuity of care with licensed professionals and therapists.