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01About Caroline
Dr. Caroline Bertolet is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who blends counseling and coaching to help people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She draws on six years of experience supporting people facing depression, career challenges, and attention-related concerns.
Her style is direct and practical, aimed at making everyday life easier to handle. Clients can expect sessions that focus on present needs and clear steps forward. She pays attention to how patterns show up in daily life and helps people build small routines that add up.
Background and approach
This practical focus is useful for work-life balance, parenting strain, and relationship tension. Caroline frames conversations around goals and what is working now. She emphasizes understanding current feelings and behaviors rather than long histories.
People who prefer action-oriented conversations and quick, concrete strategies find this approach helpful. Her background includes work with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue. She also supports concerns around adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink.
These areas inform how she tailors sessions to individual needs. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions are handled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Prospective clients pick a Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to availability.
02Credentials
- LPC (Virginia)
- License 0701008407 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1417215237 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Caroline lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Methods Caroline names
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04Online support
Solution-Focused Care Online and Practical Options
Solution-Focused Therapy centers on finding useful steps that move someone toward their goals. It focuses on what is already working and builds small, repeatable changes to reduce stress and boost confidence. This approach can help with anxiety, career challenges, relationship tensions, and managing ADHD symptoms.Caroline combines present-focused conversation with coaching-style problem solving to prioritize the client's immediate needs. Together the client and therapist decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made. Finding the right fit is a collaborative process and she works with each person to match style to goals and preferences.
Online therapy formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, short exchanges during a busy week. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and travel while keeping continuity of care.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, career struggles, ADHD, and related concerns such as compassion fatigue and parenting strain.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is present-focused and practical, using solution-focused ideas to identify steps that help right away while also exploring what happens in day-to-day life.
What is her professional background?
She has six years of clinical experience and combines counseling and life coaching approaches to support people with a wide range of concerns.
Does she hold any credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - and practices from Virginia.
Can people who live outside the United States work with her?
Yes, sessions are offered to international clients in English.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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