Couples Counseling Therapists in Milton Village, MA

I am patient and experienced in providing supportive, dynamic therapy for individuals and couples, whether short-term work around a focused goal, or longer-term therapy to explore complex issues. If you are experiencing emotional distress or uncertainty about how to move forward in life, I can help you to identify what is actually causing the frustration, depression, anxiety, or marital problems. We do this together by exploring your unique history of life experiences, making connections among the emotions, thoughts, behavior patterns, and significant relationships in your life.

Welcome to my practice! I currently meet with clients via telehealth. Telehealth offers clients flexibility in their schedule while still receiving the same high quality therapeutic support. My passion has always been helping people improve their quality of life and create a life worth living. My goal is to help you gain insight into your presenting challenges and develop healthy coping skills to help manage symptoms and regulate emotions.

Are you feeling stressed or overwhelmed by events that feel out of your control? Do you notice unhealthy patterns in the choices you make? These feelings of powerlessness and vulnerability can understandably lead to anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance, or anger. Potentially, these emotions can impact the relationships you have with your partner, children, friends or coworkers. As a psychotherapist, I have been helping clients for over 15 years understand and change dysfunctional patterns, and develop healthier coping mechanisms. I am an active participant in the process, and try to help my clients develop insight and solutions to their problems.

You feel trapped in thinking again and again about the same issue? You feel as you can’t take a breath, lost your sleep and criticize everything you do? Does this all make you feel as you are not good enough; you should please others to be liked; you are failing as a partner, parent or a friend? Would you like to create space for yourself where you can discover your unique life journey? Collaboratively, we can create a safe space to help you feel your feelings; build awareness; understand relationship patterns; and develop strategies to cope at home, work and in society.

New Directions Counseling Center provides a welcoming, comfortable, confidential atmosphere. Our team consists of 8 therapists with various specialties and many years of collective experience. We offer traditional and Christian counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Issues addressed include: depression, anxiety, stress management, elder issues, loss and grief, addiction (including substance, exercise, and computer) relapse prevention, codependency, ACOA, parenting issues, child growth and development, pregnancy loss, infertility, postpartum depression, trauma, loss of vision, men's issues, job loss and more.

Learn to recognize your strengths and use them to develop skills to help manage the challenges in your life. Relationship problems, anxiety, depression, parenting issues, and substance abuse are all problems that leave people feeling stuck and unable to move forward. With a Doctorate in Psychology and more than 20 years clinical experience, I will work in a collaborative way to help you understand the nature of the problems in your life and to set forth your goals for moving forward. You will discover your strengths, develop your skills for managing your life situation, and make the changes you seek.

My aim is to provide a supportive and safe environment for addressing issues, such as managing emotional symptoms, dealing with life stress, or experiencing inner struggles or relationship problems. With an empathetic and engaged approach, my goal is to help you feel better and more fulfilled. I work primarily with adults and adolescents. My approach is eclectic, which means sometimes helping people to make changes in behavior and ways of coping and sometimes helping people to better understand their feelings and resolve past experiences by exploring their personal meanings. Overall, I strive to meet each person's unique needs from therapy.

Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, Telehealth only. As a Therapist, I am passionate and committed to supporting any individuals, couples, and families in finding more hope in their preferred lives and relationships. Being non-judgmental, compassionate, collaborative, and respectful are my main principles in my practice. I am excited to co-create possibilities with you to see that there is Light despite all of the darkness.

Do you find yourself suffering from more stress and anxiety than usual? Are you functioning less well at work than you know you are capable of? Is there strain in your relationships with one or more people you really care about - e.g., your partner, family member, friend? Are you searching for a fulfilling intimate relationship but having trouble finding the right person? Are you having trouble sleeping? Is body image a problem? Do you have sexual concerns? Have you experienced trauma in your life that interferes with your enjoyment of relationships and yourself because you never had an opportunity to work it through?

As our lives get more complicated and our communities get smaller, our relationships, marriages, and partnerships have never been more important. I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist who helps individuals, couples, and families create fulfilling, healthy relationships by reducing stress and improving communication and intimacy. My space is affirming, strengths-based, nonjudgmental, and creative, and treatment will be tailored to your specific needs. I love my work because it allows me to daily witness healing and reconciliation between people who deeply love each other.

To make the decision to enter therapy, whatever your reasons, requires courage and persistence. Maybe you are feeling stuck in your current circumstances or frustrating behavior patterns. Or maybe you struggle with anxiety or depression, or wrestle with the pain of some kind of trauma or abuse. I believe we all are meant to grow and develop; and that some life events or relationships can throw up roadblocks to that natural process of growth. I believe that the combination of insight and hard work with a compassionate and experienced therapist can be very healing and yes, life changing.

My approach to therapy is one of empowerment and self-discovery. I emphasize working with individual, couples and families in a collaborative environment to help them realize their inner strength and resiliency. With the use of self-exploration and mindfulness techniques clients discover how to overcome and work through the issues or areas of need that are currently affecting them. I place equal emphasis on the individual, as well as the systems in our lives and how the two of them combine to shape the person we are today.

How to therapeutically claim the disowned self.by using what is already inside of you. Are you stuck in a relationship? with addiction? settling for less in work or career? Find the joy.... Barbara Miller, LICSW, psychotherapist can help you do just that. She has a gift for healing. Psychotherapy, with her skill and competency, can help you find and focus on the major psychosocial issues that are keeping you stuck.Throughout the years Barbara's clients credit her with saving their lives even though it is really the client who saves his own life. Is your life worth saving?

I have expertise in working with children and adolescents, as well as, adults. I focus my clinical work on supporting clients with addressing their needs around anxiety, depression, trauma, identity development, as well as addiction, and substance use. I have worked for years on supporting students around developing executive functioning skills. I also have extensive experience working with families addressing the interpersonal dynamics within a family system to support the family as a whole. I enjoy working with parents to do therapy and coaching for working with their children when they are presenting with challenging behavior.

We are a small group practice of licensed counseling providers with available in-person or telehealth/virtual sessions. We provide you with a safe space to share the personal challenges that impact your emotional, relational, and mental wellness. The counselor-person relationship will be a collaborative approach to explore symptoms or behaviors that affects daily functioning and personal growth. Progress and recovery can feel easier when you have a helping hand.

Are you struggling with your emotions, your marriage, communication, anxiety, depression, or building sustained recovery from alcohol or other substance abuse? Are you having difficulty in the workplace or transitioning to adult life? Adulting is difficult. Working together, we will identify and build on your strengths. We will build resiliency and help you develop practical coping skills that you can start applying right away to make your life better. You can develop the internal resources to navigate your most difficult emotional challenges. Contact me via phone or email. I am looking forward to helping!

I am trained and experienced in helping adults, couples and their families build "a life worth living" through Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. In a safe nonjudgmental space, clients learn mindfulness and other evidence-based behavioral tools to manage their emotions and clarify their life's purpose.

Spring/Summer 2024 - - - Currently accepting NEW clients for couples therapy and co-parenting therapy. - - - I specialize in helping individuals and families navigate the messy and overwhelming struggles that come up through relationship conflict and life transitions. It is in adversity, whether personal loss, trauma, or relationship struggles, that I believe we have the greatest opportunity to find out who we truly are, what we really believe and the type of people we eventually want to become.

The therapeutic relationship is a powerful vehicle for change. While building a connection, we will be able to work together to discover, create, and realize your goals. I see adolescents and adults using a variety of techniques, but all centered on building your strengths, while striving for a more balanced and harmonious life. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in setting up an appointment to see if I would be the right fit for your needs. ***CURRENTLY TAKING NEW CLIENTS FOR SHORT OR LONG TERM TREATMENT OVER TELEHEALTH BASED UPON AVAILABILITY***