Laura Bollin

Laura Bollin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing major life transitions and emotional strain. She is straightforward and calm in sessions and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Laura also offers support around grief, workplace strain, and issues tied to self-esteem and identity.

She draws on 14 years of experience in counseling, hospice, and hospital settings. That background gives her familiarity with end-of-life concerns, compassion fatigue, and bereavement care. Laura earned her Master of Social Work from Boise State University and holds LCSW and LICSW credentials.

In sessions she uses Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different choices. She mixes listening with concrete tools people can use between meetings. Faith can be part of the conversation when clients want it included.

Her style is encouraging and practical. She aims to offer clear coping strategies, grounding techniques, and steps to improve day-to-day functioning. People often come for help with relationship strain, attachment concerns, codependency, and navigating divorce and separation.

Outside of work she identifies as a spouse, Christian, ally, outdoors person, animal lover, and reader. She invites people who need a steady listener and helpful tools to begin the process and see if her way of working fits their needs.

Approaches that guide online work

Motivational Interviewing focuses on helping people find their own reasons to change. It involves open questions, reflective listening, and gentle encouragement to move toward goals. This approach can help with motivation around behavior change, career steps, or recovery from compassion fatigue.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. The therapist and client identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. CBT is often used for social anxiety, SAD, and daily coping skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as you go. That collaborative process helps tailor tools and homework to real life.

The original profile does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm the current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people connect from their own routines. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, worksheets, and motivational techniques for remote sessions to keep progress moving forward.