Family Therapy in Greenville, RI

This practice consists of 3 clinicans who are client-focused utilizing a family system model and evidence-based therapies tailored to enrich success in completing therapeutic goals. The services are provided with efficiency, thoughtfulness, and as team with the client (children and young adults) and/or family. We each have our own specific training and/or certifications including crisis intervention, CBT, Solution-Focus, Exposure Response Therapy, Motivational interviewing, and DBT. In addition, we also provide group therapy. We have professional experiences within various settings: Outpatient, Inpatient, and Emergency settings.

My 25 plus years of experience has been working with children, youth and their families who have a history of trauma/abuse and neglect and struggle with relationships. I have experience in public child welfare, working with RI Family Court, RI Superior Court and various other state and community service agencies. I have worked with victims of violence as well as offenders. My work focuses around helping parents, young adults and children who have struggled with their behavioral health; depression, substance use disorders, anger management, communication, relationship issues and school functioning.

Stephanie Batista, PsyD, is a postdoctoral fellow who received her doctorate in clinical psychology from William James College. Dr. Batista provides evidence-based therapies for children, adolescents and adults. Her clinical interests include anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, relational issues, life transitions, and stress management. Dr. Batista provides individual psychotherapy using cognitive-behavioral and client-centered approaches. She believes in tailoring each session to her clients' individual needs and places special focus on the therapeutic relationship.

Sometimes we all need a little extra help or someone outside of our circle to listen and give a fresh perspective. I believe that everyone can change and has the ability to better themselves when life may not feel that way. I have been in the field for over 20 years. I provide counseling for adults and work in finding the best solutions for the issues at hand. Our goal together will be to develop tools that you can utilize in your daily life long after counseling has ended.

Elise N. Jarvis, LMHC is a licensed clinician in RI who has provided clinical care since 2010. She received her Master's degree in Psychology and then continued her academic career earning an Advanced Counseling Certificate in Mental Health Counseling from Rhode Island College. Her training has honed in on: trauma and recovery work, behavioral difficulties, self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, suicidality, parent-focused interventions, and coping skill and sensory implementation.

I graduated from Rhode Island College with my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work; as well as, I am licensed in Rhode Island and Maine as a Licensed Clinical Therapist. While I specialize with adults and couples, my experiences have also been in providing individual therapy for middle and high-school aged students with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health challenges, Couples Therapy, adult/ teen depression, Anxiety, addiction with older adults, care givers grief, care giver support, and hospice. I have had a vast amount of experience in the treatment of a wide variety of mental and behavioral health concerns.

Julia Bussolari is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Rhode Island who has been practicing since 2019. She completed the RIC graduate program in 2019. Julia has worked with children with disabilities for more than 20 years. She has met with families of children with disabilities and helped them cope with their diagnosis and behaviors. She has also treated adults and children with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and ADHD. In her free time, Julia enjoys animals and traveling.

Life is your book and sometimes it can be scary, overwhelming or just plain uncertain when getting ready to turn the next page. What comes next? Will you be ready for it? Will you be confident enough to take that necessary leap? Specializing in substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders, I may be able to help. That's right, help! These difficulties, or any difficulties, do not have to be faced alone.

If you're struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, or a transition in life, I can help with alleviating the symptoms or behaviors which may be affecting your working or personal relationships. I also work with children and families who are struggling with behavioral or emotional problems. We will work together to create a treatment plan which specifically tailors to your needs, whether it's short or long-term treatment. Together we will learn what techniques are most effective for you.

I recognize it is not easy for most people to make the decision to seek help. I will focus on forming a safe therapeutic relationship with you and helping to identify the changes that will lead you to have the life you are seeking. That may mean replacing behaviors or patterns that are no longer working for you or learning new coping skills. My specialties include depression, anxiety, grief, relationship issues, and substance abuse. I see school- aged children, adolescents, and adults of all ages in individual, couple, and family therapy. I accept many health insurances.

We are not accepting new clients at this time. We are a small group of clinicians with experience supporting adults, adolescents, and children struggling with various mental health difficulties, families struggling with parenting and difficult relationships, and survivors of trauma. We assist clients to process the emotional highs and lows of their experiences, to build coping, self care, and problem solving skills, and to improve their relationships. We use a person-centered approach to help clients feel self-empowered and build happier, more fulfilling lives.

If you want to attract, create and keep a loving relationship you must first understand, accept, forgive and love yourself. Then you are ready to understand, accept, forgive and love another person. My ideal client is a person who is seeking answers to issues they are facing in their life. This person(s) will be one who is open to faith-based principles combined with psychological methods and techniques that allow for healing to take place in their life. I have faith and hope for healing and wholeness in your body, mind and spirit.

You're unique, and it's my job to tailor treatment to your individual needs. I will provide you tools and strategies to take control of your life through positive changes -- changes that will last. I work with young adults through the elderly. My specialties include: relationship issues; divorce, and other difficult life transitions; depression and anxiety; trauma history, especially in women; compassion fatigue and stress; low self-esteem, and lack of assertiveness; and grief and loss, including death of pets. I am a trained divorce mediator.