Eric Bolella

Eric Bolella is a licensed psychotherapist who practices privately using telehealth services. He earned his master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Central Connecticut State University in 2013 and holds a Connecticut license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (CT LMFT 1755). He brings ten years of clinical experience to his work.

His background includes outpatient work with inner city youth and low-income families in New Britain, Connecticut, clinical roles in a therapeutic adolescent boys’ group home, and management of a therapeutic adolescent girls’ group home. More recently he oversaw a state-funded, nonprofit clinical domestic violence program focused on reforming abusive behaviors and repairing family bonds to help keep families together and avoid state intervention.

As a practitioner, Eric emphasizes systemic thinking and a trauma-focused perspective. His approach blends solution-focused strategies with a Socratic conversational style and draws on Internal Family Systems (IFS) as described by Dick Schwartz, Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry, and narrative therapy methods.

He works with a range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief and loss, stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, relationship and family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, LGBT issues, eating and sleeping disorders, parenting challenges, anger management, self-esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Eric lists particular clinical strengths in managing general life stress, grief and loss, depression and anxiety, trauma-related issues, intimate relationship problems, and transitions across the life cycle.