About Bobbie-Jo
Bobbie-Jo Rand is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, or problems with sleep and motivation. She talks calmly and plainly so parents and adults can understand next steps without extra jargon.
Bobbie-Jo focuses on practical skills people can use right away. She helps clients identify small routine changes, manage impulsivity, and improve day-to-day focus. Conversations cover coping with life changes, grief, substance use concerns, and challenges tied to identity and the LGBTQ community.
Background and approach
Her way of working is collaborative and person-centered. Sessions often include straightforward goal-setting, problem-solving, and short exercises to practice between meetings. She draws from cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness tools to help people notice patterns and try different responses.
Bobbie-Jo also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when clients want clear steps and quicker momentum. That can be useful for addressing addictions, impulsivity, or making a plan for parenting and blended family issues. She pays attention to how mood, sleep, and stress interact and adjusts work to fit each person's life.
Clients can expect direct conversation about what is working and what needs to change. Bobbie-Jo emphasizes self-care skills, communication improvements, and building self-love over time. Her practice in Maine centers on practical progress and steady support.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and following the client's lead. A therapist offers empathy and reflection to help people clarify what matters most to them and set personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and functioning; sessions often include simple exercises to try between meetings to change unhelpful patterns and improve focus or mood.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they try methods that fit the client's needs and adjust course when something isn't helping, so work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match how a person likes to communicate. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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