I am a licensed psychologist with over 10 years of international work experience and specialist in hypnosis, women's health, and sex and couples therapy. If you are struggling with a medical, sexual, or relationship problem I want you to know that I am committed to helping people just like yourself. Finding the right professional for your most personal needs is an important first step towards treatment success. My web page, http://www.drflory.com is intended to give you more detailed information about my areas of expertise.

Feeling depressed, anxious, and unable to concentrate. Perhaps your life isn't going in the direction you had hoped it would. Life can get difficult at times and counseling can truly make all the difference. I have over 15 years of counseling experience and draw upon solution focused treatment to help you start living the life you love. I invite you to call for an initial free phone consult. I work with children, adults, couples and families.

(UPDATE - as of February 2021, I am not currently accepting new clients.) Thank you for visiting. You deserve life to feel less stressful and overwhelming. I can help you reach that goal by working with you to change the way you think - which affects how you feel. Do you feel stuck? Do you feel like no one understands? Our sessions are designed so that you can remain focused on today, not get stuck back into yesterday or worry too much about what tomorrow brings. I use a full holistic - mind, body and spirit approach to therapy. My goal is to help you - help yourself. You can have control back in your life again.

The first goal of psychotherapy is relief from distress, but it should also be about how you want to live and what you want your relationships to be. I specialize in depression and anxiety and have particular experience in working with problems around relationship difficulties, creativity and family dynamics. My approach is open and based on the uniqueness of each person. I work with you to discover how experiences have shaped the ways you see yourself and relate to others, sometimes in ways outside of your awareness.

In my 24 years as social worker at McLean Hospital and in private practice, I have worked with individuals, couples, and families who are dealing addiction to drugs and alcohol. I believe that one size does not fit all in the recovery process. I find traditional forms of recovery such as 12-step programs to be very helpful. I also utilize alternatives such as motivational enhancement therapy SMART recovery, which utilizes behavior modification techniques. I aid families in pursuing Al-Anon, where appropriate. I also facilitate interventions, both traditional and the CRAFT model, which utilizes a positive reinforcement approach.

I will provide you with a safe and supportive environment for exploration and creative problem solving, with an emphasis on results. While our relationship is central to the process, I also realize that you want and need to find real solutions. I am prepared and would be honored to help you do just that. I have been certified in Cognitive Behavioral Interventions, an approach that has been demonstrated in hundreds of studies to be THE most effective method for helping people overcome their problems (emotional, relationship, adjustment, etc.). In short: it works!

Are you feeling increasingly sad, worried or struggling with difficult relationships, stressors, or life experiences? Perhaps you are a parent of an adolescent who is struggling with anxiety, moodiness, school, or gender or sexual identity questions/concerns and you are concerned but not sure how to help. Would you (or your teen) like to feel happy, confident, and productive, with positive social connections and the skills to cope effectively with stress?

I see the many dimensions of life, including self identity, connections to others, history, humor, and so on, as central to the process of real healing. Bringing the invaluable benefit of a lifelong career as a psychotherapist to the healing experience, my contribution to the process of therapy simply cannot be summarized in a few words. I offer an approach that evolves to best meet the needs of each individual or couple.

Welcome! If you have landed on this page, chances are your relationship is teetering, or perhaps you have one foot out the door already. It can be overwhelming when nothing you say or do is right or seems to help. I am a relationship expert who will partner with you, listen objectively and tell the truth (as I see it) with compassion. I can teach you the skills to help you bring your relationship to a more respectful, loving and cherishing place. Breathe, give me a call. Let's talk about the possibilities.

If you are struggling with emotional issues, stressful life experiences or feel a sense of disconnection, connecting with a therapist can help to alleviate your suffering. With me you will be able to explore difficult thoughts and feelings, challenge patterns and behaviors that might not be serving you or reflect on your relationships in a safe and supportive space. I care about the relationship I establish with my clients, am warm and compassionate and enjoy working collaboratively.

I am a clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience working with adults. I have specialized training in couple psychotherapy and EMDR, a technique that helps alleviate severe stress reactions. I generally work with people who are experiencing some kind of difficulty moving forward in life. This could be from a recent stressor or the culmination of past events.

NCYF offers a wide range of clinical options to children and families. All of our clinical services are informed by evidence-based practices and services are delivered in a way that focuses on compassion and a respect for an individual's past trauma.

A safe, empathic therapeutic space for clients to make meaningful changes in their lives," "I help clients make meaningful and necessary changes for overall increased life satisfaction. I do this by providing a safe, non threatening and supportive setting for clients to "do their work" and create a therapeutic space where humor is allowed. If appropriate, a client's sense of their own spirituality is acknowledged and integrated as a resource of empowerment, to sort through feelings, thoughts and behaviors that either help or hinder them in achieving identified goals.

Therapy is a process of working together to help you experience new ways of generating hope and inspiration for your life. As we understand the dilemmas you face, I'll help you see how you can use your creative abilities to develop new choices for meeting them and explore new paths toward change. In my work with individuals, couples and families I offer a framework for keeping track of important ideas, meaningful life stories and useful directions. I integrate ideas from family systems and narrative therapies and phase-oriented trauma recovery.

Clients who value growth through insight,emotional awareness and creativity, do well with me. By growth I mean moving towards being more mindful. Being more present in body,mind and,sprit. I am best suited to treating depression, anxiety,trauma,sexual identity issues, as well as relationship issues and issues of life purpose including career and relationships. I also specialize in working with people who have been diagnosed or their child has been Diagnosed with an illness such as Type 1 diabetes.

PLEASE NOTE: I AM ACCEPTING GROUP REFERRALS BUT AT THIS TIME I AM NOT ACCEPTING REFERRALS FOR INDIVIDUAL THERAPY. I treat adults, adolescents and children in individual and group therapy in my Brookline and Arlington offices. I work with clients on a variety of issues including depression, anxiety, sexuality, divorce, step-parenting, trauma, loss and grief. Through exploration and collaboration, I help clients gain more clarity, become more connected, and feel greater satisfaction with their lives. In addition, I provide supervision, consultation and training to clinicians on group therapy and a variety of other topics.

Please note I am not accepting clients at this time. It takes a lot of courage to enter into therapy as it means acknowledging that something isn't working in your life. Everyone who comes into therapy is a unique individual whose problems are different eventhough they may fall under the same category,e.g."depressed." Sometimes people enter into therapy with specific problems while for others there is a need to understand old, negative patterns of behaviors.

Using the latest research about the importance of human connections, we offer expertise to join you in better understanding and resolving the relationship challenges in your life. We help our clients learn new ways of interacting within their most important relationships, to create more fulfillment and meaning in their lives. Utilizing the short-term, results-oriented model of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we can help you learn a better way to connect with your loved ones. By teaching you how to use new relational tools, we enable you to change old patterns that have led to frustration and disconnection.

I specialize in interpersonal growth and connection. I have extensive experience helping men and women understand themselves better and deepen their relationships with others. In therapy, we will collaborate and address issues that block connections and that lead to feelings of being lost, confused, sad, and fearful. I often treat individuals who are searching for greater fulfillment in their lives and who experience isolation in their difficulties to change behaviors. Together, we will look into what purpose these behaviors serve. We will work to make room for new, effective behaviors that present themselves and lead to greater life fulfillment.

I believe that through counseling one can heal from the impact of trauma and loss. I am a bilingual therapist with more than 12 years of experience working with adolescent and adult survivors of trauma. I have helped clients of all identities feel safe and empowered to address the impact of their traumatic life experiences.