Therapists in Bolton, MA

Over the last thirty years as a Clinical Psychologist, I have learned how children, adults, couples, and families break free of disheartening relational patterns and rewrite oppressive stories. I have learned how to attend to what matters most: feeling safe, opening to love, and creating a life guided by compassion. I truly love my work, and that may be because I am still learning every day how to ask questions that spark wonder and creativity, how to listen for the depth behind words, knowing when to be patient, when to challenge.

Welcome! Going through a difficult time or a time in which you’re flooded with more questions than answers is hard but it can also be an invitation to discover strengths and supports you may not know you had. In therapy, you are invited to take care of yourself with more commitment, find what matters most to you, and listen deeply for answers inside of yourself. I am committed to creating a safe and non-judgmental space where you can begin your journey home to yourself.

As psychotherapist, coach, and career counselor, I'm committed to helping you find wholeness through cognitive, insight-oriented, behavioral, mind-body and mindfulness approaches. I have worked for over three decades assisting clients with both the practical and emotional issues change often requires. During Covid-19 you may decide to focus on: contingency planning if your organization should fold; work on your resume; ramping up virtual networking; learning additional stress management techniques; support with emotional challenges; creative ways to deal with isolation and loneliness.

I see my role as creating a safe space a where you can explore what it means to be you. Within the therapeutic alliance, built on trust and unconditional positive regard, I will listen to your joys, your fears, and your pain with empathy and compassion, and offer you the tools to thrive. My approach draws from person-centered, strength-based, and trauma-informed perspectives, utilizing a combination of orientations that includes cognitive behavioral, humanistic, psychoanalytic, transpersonal, somatic, and mindfulness-based. I personalize my approach to best suit each individual client.

Are you suffering from limiting fears, depression, grief, anger, stress, anxiety or addictions? If so, I can help. I help clients break free from these and other issues using different mind/body therapies (including hypnosis) to quickly and powerfully integrate health, happiness and peace into people's lives. My intent is always to guide clients to a path of insight and understanding that allow them to fully utilize their inherent inner healing and creativity that we as human beings all possess.

I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor serving individuals and groups in Franklin County Massachusetts. I have 15 years experience training and practice in using action-based methods for engaging the mind, emotions, and the body. Effective for use with individuals and in a group setting, together we address issues related to depression, anxiety, grief, anger, suicidal ideation and self-harm impulses, social anxiety, ADHD, substance abuse, bullying, and issues related to emotional and physical abuse, abandonment and neglect. Supporting children, youth, adults and elders restoring creativity and spontaneity.

The Personal Growth Center will empower you to... "Improve your thinking... Improve your life!" With a vast range of expertise in the following areas: All addictions, All forms of abuse, Couples/Marital & Family, Parental Alienation, Anger/Emotion Management, LGBT-Friendly, and Pet assisted therapy available. We provide the best possible mental health counseling to meet the needs of individuals and families. We offer Traditional, Holistic, Positive Psychology, and Spiritual Psychotherapeutic approaches. Our practical, effective skills will enable you to "make the rest of your life the best of your life!"

I am a lively, caring, dynamic feminist psychotherapist located in Shelburne Falls, Mass. with over 40 years of experience with counseling and therapy. I have openings for individual clients, teenagers, people under personal stress or in a relationship crisis. couples. LGBTQ clients are also very welcome. I have particular experience with trauma, anger, depression, anxiety, shame, debt crises, abusive family patterns that need to be changed. My goal in our sessions is to nurture your capacity for decision-making, for healing, for life change, and to explore impasses until they shift into turning points...

In our work together we will use a holistic approach, look at what is going on physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, to restore harmony and balance. My experience includes both traditional and alternative approaches to health and healing. I am a highly experienced/skilled clinician who has been in private practice and the Behavioral/Mental Health field for 30 years. I work with the entire individual, couple, family, child, adolescent - on issues spanning across the life cycle. I am Culturally Competent, sought out by a culturally diverse community and honored to serve widely ranging socio-economic-religious populations.

My ideal client is that person looking for a broadly experienced and seasoned clinician who is able to work closely with them within the relationships, contexts, challenges, and dreams, that they find themselves an integral part of. Whether the client is interested in an experiential, behavioral, or a combined and integrated approach, they will have an interest in exploring the possibilities inherent in sharing their challenges and desire to rebalance their lives or grow themselves into those life spaces that have brought them to my office.

My work is rooted in the belief that there is nothing wrong with us. We just need support in finding what works and what doesn’t work and integrating the myriad parts of ourselves. I work within a relational framework and value collaboration every step of the way. It is also my commitment to create a safe space where the complexity of identity and experience is honored and affirmed.

I offer a co-ed Relationship Group. Feel free to inquire more about how this kind of therapy can be quite useful. I do Individual, Couples, Family, and Group Therapy. I currently facilitate a Bereavement Group which meets at my Brookline office every Saturday from 2-4pm. I also run groups for substance abuse, depression and anxiety. In addition, I have a lot of experience counseling children of all ages. I am a firm believer in strength-based psychotherapy.

I believe that a good therapist is a collaborator who works with you as part of a team. In this way, I will not only offer insights and help identify possibly unhealthy patterns, but I also will provide direction, support, and assistance in developing the skills you need to overcome your challenges. My approach to therapy is cognitive behavioral and solution-focused. My intent is to always provide a safe, compassionate, and caring space in which to better understand the challenges you face and to help you develop or enhance the skills you need to meet your goals.

Video and Phone therapy now available! Individual, Couples and Family therapy.

Dr. William R. Newman, a licensed psychologist for years, specializes in the treatment of complex developmental trauma with dissociation. Dr. Newman's treatment of anxiety, depression, and trauma, will help you alleviate your symptoms and causes of your distress. Couples and families will improve their relationships by effectively communicating and increasing their understanding of each other's needs. You will learn to communicate from your true/highest/spirit/soul SELF with LOVE, and compassion. Dr. Newman helps you help yourself with self-leadership to increase your consciousness/awareness to make the best and healthiest choices for all parts of you and your relationships.

If you have made it this far, well done you! Therapy can be so tough because it requires us to admit that something requires change, and most importantly, ask for help. It can be overwhelming to figure out how to balance your mental health and your daily responsibilities. As your therapist, I don’t expect you to have that figured out because it’s my job to help show you. Our therapeutic space that I offer is nothing short of unconditional support for your entire being. I encourage clients to bring their whole self to therapy and empower clients to use this space in a way that feels most effective for them.

Calm in the middle of the storm; strength to overcome any obstacle; courage, resilience and determination - these are qualities I seek to cultivate in my clients. My goal is to not only offer my clients relief from disturbing emotional and cognitive symptoms but to support them in manifesting their highest potential. My clinical work has been described as "effective," "holistic", "multi-modal," "results oriented," blending the science of Western Psychology with the intuition of the Eastern spiritual traditions. I focus on root cause for powerful healing. Hardworking clients committed to their growth flourish in my care.

My “ideal” client is you! I welcome pretty much anyone who needs help. Psychotherapy is always about the supportive relationship between therapist and client, no matter what the specific orientation of the clinician. We can approach the issue from any number of angles. These angles, or techniques, are: whatever works. Period. Whatever brings you relief. I will work very hard for you.

It is essential that therapists are competent and have evidence-based ideas on how to get from A to B, but therapy at its best is a collaborative relationship. A safe space of non-judgment and curiosity. My stance is non-pathologizing. One of profound respect for every person and a belief that they already hold, and have always held, the key to their own growth and well-being. Personal experience with non-ordinary states and Internal Family Systems therapy has deepened my commitment to assist my clients in accessing this intrinsic inner-healing wisdom and ultimately live more courageously and authentically.