Eric Bolella, LMFT

Eric Bolella is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a decade of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, and families. He earned his Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from Central Connecticut State University in 2013 and holds the LMFT credential, which denotes a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

Eric has worked in outpatient settings serving inner city youth and low income families in New Britain, Connecticut, and has clinical experience in therapeutic adolescent group homes, both as a clinician for a boys group home and as a manager for a girls group home. He later managed a state funded, non-profit clinical domestic violence program focused on reforming abusive behaviors and supporting family bonds to reduce the need for state intervention. He now maintains a private practice delivered via telehealth.

He brings a systemic lens to clinical work and emphasizes trauma-focused care. His approach is grounded in solution-focused strategies blended with a Socratic conversational style and informed by Internal Family Systems, Compassionate Inquiry, and narrative methods. Eric’s practice commonly addresses trauma and abuse, grief, stress and anxiety, relationship and family challenges, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping issues, parenting and caregiver stress, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and other life transitions. He works collaboratively to identify practical steps toward clients’ goals while attending to the larger patterns that shape their lives.

Approaches and Online Access to Care

Eric commonly integrates solution-focused therapy, which emphasizes practical steps and short-term strategies to address immediate concerns and build momentum toward goals, and narrative therapy, which helps people reframe and make meaning of difficult experiences by examining the stories they tell about themselves. He also uses client-centered principles that prioritize empathic listening and respect for each person’s perspective, creating space for exploration of emotions and values.

Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative work. Eric will partner with clients to identify which methods fit best based on their needs, goals, and preferences, and he adapts techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and reduce barriers related to travel and scheduling. These options allow licensed professionals to deliver consistent support and flexible appointment formats so clients can engage in ways that match their routines and comfort levels.