Pam Bolarinho, LICSW

Pam Bolarinho is an LICSW (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker) with 20 years of experience in social work and clinical leadership in Massachusetts. She combines clinical practice with administrative roles and brings long experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and family challenges.

Pam began her career in community social work with the Healthy Families Program and later worked for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. She earned a Master of Social Work from Bridgewater State University and served as her MSW cohort class representative. Her background includes work as a clinical director in an inpatient psychiatric setting and as a social work manager in an acute medical hospital.

In recent years Pam has held senior roles focused on acute care services and helped stand up a co-response program with a local police department. That program has provided community-based responses for hundreds of people and reduced emergency room visits for many of them. She has collaborated with local coalitions addressing suicide prevention, human trafficking, and opioid response.

Pam says she uses a patient-centered, strength-based way of working. In practical terms that means talking through current problems, identifying what already helps, and building on those strengths. She draws on approaches such as narrative work and solution-focused strategies alongside cognitive behavioral techniques when they fit the concern.

Her experience includes supporting people affected by adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and family of origin problems. She provides services in English and Portuguese and works in roles across clinical care and program development.