About Caroline
Dr. Caroline Bertolet is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and life coach practicing in Virginia. She brings six years of clinical work to sessions and focuses on practical, solution-oriented help.
She meets people where they are and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. Caroline centers conversations on the present moment to build awareness and clarity. She draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to identify small, concrete steps that lead to change.
How Caroline works
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-directed, with an emphasis on what’s working and how to do more of it. She has supported people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, and trouble with self-esteem. Career concerns, transitions, grief, and coping after trauma are also part of her practice.
Additional areas include ADHD, intimacy-related issues, relationship concerns, and compassion fatigue. Caroline also works with topics such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and end-of-life and hospice concerns. She is experienced addressing difficult subjects like infidelity, guilt and shame, BDSM and kink culture, and impulse-related problems.
Her style is respectful and down-to-earth. She pays attention to each person’s culture and perspective while helping them set achievable goals. People can expect a focused, humane approach that aims for workable changes in daily life.
Caroline lists one way of working on the entry:
What Caroline works with
The areas below are the ones Caroline selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Solution-Focused Care and Online Therapy Options
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on what a person wants to change and on small steps to get there. It helps when someone wants quick, practical progress for problems like stress, career hurdles, or relationship patterns.Caroline’s approach emphasizes the present and actionable goals. She helps clients identify exceptions to their problems and then build on those moments. This method often suits people who want short-term goal setting and measurable improvements.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing a single path. Together they decide what feels useful and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or mobility, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for brief ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain momentum between meetings, and choose the format that best fits a given day or concern.
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