Therapists in 02138

You are welcome to call me directly for a free 15 min. phone consultation. From there, you'll learn more about my working style and can ask any questions you may have. My office is conveniently located in Harvard Square near the Harvard T stop and the 77 Bus route. There are lots of metered parking spaces nearby.

Greetings - I am a Lecturer on Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. My private practice focuses on Men, Women, and Couples who often have complex diagnostic pictures, some of whom may require longer-term psychotherapies to make lasting changes. I use treatment protocols that focus not simply on the absence of relational disturbance but on developing a deeply positive internal map promoting healthy secure intimacy in your life. This kind of treatment allows you to develop and flourish within the security of the therapy relationship. Additionally, I work with people who are gifted and talented in the Creative and Engineering fields.

Therapy is an opportunity to make changes (in mood, anxiety, behavior, work, school, relationships, lifestyle, etc.), and it can feel like climbing a mountain--simultaneously terrifying, frustrating, and exhilarating. As your therapist, I'll be by your side keeping the summit in sight even when you can see only seemingly endless rocks and ice ahead. I am a down-to-earth, pragmatic, general therapist (with a sense of humor). I integrate psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, motivational enhancement, and stress reduction principles and techniques into treatment based on your needs, goals, and the best strategy to reach the view from the top.

*please EMAIL* (if you don’t hear back within 3 business days, my practice is full). I believe therapy provides a place where you can get to know yourself on a deeper level and reflect on how to best navigate your life. I work with people to meet them where they are in their journey and use the relationship we build as a safe, collaborative base for growth. I am committed to creating a non-judgmental, supportive and empathic environment to explore life's joys and challenges. I work with people on addressing the issues of the here-and-now, as well as past experiences and how they inform relational and attachment struggles.

*SORRY, NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS AT THIS TIME* The poet David Whyte writes, "Let my history then be a gate unfastened to a new life and not a barrier to my becoming. Let me find the ghosts and histories and barely imagined future of this world, and let me now have the innocence to grow just as well in shadow or light." Coming to therapy can help release you from the confining narratives of your history and help you discover a future you might not have previously imagined. I will work with you to hear from your pain and how that pain might be speaking to you.

A good therapeutic relationship provides the foundation for exploration and discovery. We will work together to change the limiting befiefs, feelings and behaviors so that you can experience real choice in your life. I am committed to helping people relate to themselves and others with curiosity, compassion and authenticity.

My work with clients is deeply informed by a central belief: when in connection — to self, values, a sense of purpose, body, community, agency, and choice — we are most ourselves, most alive, and most well. A feeling of disconnection, in my experience, often sits somewhere close to the heart of what motivates many people to seek therapy. My clients are often ready to risk something new in the service of growth, with or without a clear sense of what they want or exactly where they are going. We will together identify patterns of thinking, acting, and feeling that no longer serve and try to shift them in a direction that does.

As a trauma specialized clinician and former Program Director at McLean Hospital, I have developed expertise in trauma and dissociation. I have deep respect for clients' painful struggles as well as for their strength, resilience, and capacity for growth. My approach is fundamentally gentle and compassionate but requires active collaboration. Are you curious about yourself and wish to understand how your past informs present relationships, emotions, and behavior? Join me to build insight and coping strategies, reduce the overwhelming impact of your symptoms and your past, and build a more present, empowered, and satisfying life.

I have 20 years experience working with eating disorders - including Binge Eating Disorder - depression, anxiety and trauma. I treat adults, adolescents and families. I started The Burlington Eating Disorders Center in Vermont in 1991 and have helped many individuals overcome their eating disorders -- I use a team approach with nutritionists, family therapists, PCP's and psychiatrists. I have been a counselor or student affairs officer at several NE colleges including Middlebury College and UVM. I have worked with many survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking and harassment through my former position at the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response at Harvard University.

I understand the importance of developing resilience-to-change in order to effectively cope with major life transitions (marriage, birth of a child, loss of a loved one, divorce, retirement, new job). Without such resilience, life can feel overwhelming, self esteem becomes precarious, and mood can dip dramatically. Through my warm, direct, highly international approach, I collaborate with my clients to address the behaviors that continue to cause pain. My books, teaching and supervision have provided training for 100s of other clinicians to help their clients to feel more empowered in relationship and to fulfill their potential

I am a licensed behavioral psychologist with over 20 years of experience specializing in the treatment of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, impulsivity, and Borderline Personality Disorder. I have advanced training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Through a relational approach that is both eclectic and skill based, a key goal of our therapy will be to provide symptom relief and improved quality of life.

My therapeutic approach is fundamentally based on concepts of insight, skill-building, relationship and resilience. I am supportive and direct. While the past can influence our perspectives and behavior, I believe our current choices readily predict our future. Psychodynamic, structural and skills-based psychotherapy, including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), guide my work with clients. I am trained in solution-focused CBT, and psychodynamic approaches to relational issues.

I am an experienced clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience in clinical practice. I have an empathic, non-judgmental style, and work to gently and clearly understand the feelings and experience of the person who is sitting in front of me. The basis for my work is psychodynamic therapy, a form of "talk therapy" in which the roots of present-day issues are identified by exploring earlier experiences that may be related. Through this processing of early experiences, emotional resolution of the experiences can occur. Through this therapeutic process, my patients live progressively happier, more contented lives.

People come to therapy for all sorts of reasons, yet a common thread unites this motivation: the desire to understand one's inner experience in an authentic way. Therapy presents an opportunity to be curious, to foster new depths of understanding, and to develop a greater sense of meaning in your life. The therapeutic relationship provides a space to explore an intuitive understanding of yourself. The core of my therapeutic work is to help people articulate deeply held longings, and to decide if and how to manifest them in the world.

Are you a diamond in the rough? I provide social psychologically informed therapy that looks concentratedly at each client's various emotions in context, how and why emotions arise in relationships and what they have to tell us. I help clients look at their complex feelings related to self, break ups, loss of connection, and unresolved grief or anger, and their positive feelings. I try to help clients persist at these times to discover unrealized strengths, better connections. I work with a sense of humor, realism and practicality. I hope my clients can feel secure and increasingly present, and make smarter, more conscious choices.

While I am not currently taking new folks, I specialize in work with trauma and interpersonal harm. I have extensive experience working with people who have caused interpersonal harm in order to develop sustainable belief and behavior change to reduce the likelihood of future harm. I also work with people who have experienced interpersonal harm in order to make meaning of their experiences and identify strategies that support being who they want in the world. In addition to those specialties, I love working with folks as they strategize about who they want to be and how to become that self.

*I am unable to take new clients in my private practice at this time.* I believe that everyone deserves to feel fully engaged and present in life. I recognize that difficult emotions or life circumstances can get in the way of this experience and deeply believe in the power of connection to heal. My approach is direct and honest while offering a warm, non-judgmental space for my clients. I am compassionate towards the many ways someone may try to find safety and control in a world that feels dangerous.

I am a psychoanalyst and clinical social worker with 25 years of experience providing consultation, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. I work with adults facing relationship difficulties or negotiating major life transitions, such as, graduation from school/professional training, marriage, parenting or mid-life concerns. I also help people who have attained significant achievements in life, but still experience unhappiness, loneliness, anxiety, or a sense of meaninglessness. I offer a reliable and supportive setting to understand and explore your difficulties in a manner that leads to real change and greater satisfaction in life. My office is centrally located in Harvard Square, Cambridge.

I believe there are many ways to bring about change, and work collaboratively with clients to identify the ways that will work best for them. My approach to therapy is integrative, incorporating relational, psychodynamic and strengths-based perspectives, as well as cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based interventions. I am committed to understanding clients within their cultural contexts, and pay close attention to the impact of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and, when relevant, religion on development and identity.