Welcome, I'm Evelyn Dougherty and I've been a practicing therapist for over 20 years. Whether your in emotional pain from a loss, a break up, relationship stress, raising children, caring for older parents, health issues or challenges at work - I will work to support you and help you to grow emotionally so your in a better position to deal with what life challenges you face. My short term work is individual and couples counseling my longer term therapy is group and couples group.

I love helping clients who feel stuck with anxiety, depression, or trauma become “unstuck.” In my therapy space, I strive to create a supportive environment for people to explore their emotions – and the experiences that shaped those emotions. With individuals, couples, and families, I work collaboratively to understand how previous dynamics, especially with families of origin, contribute to their current thoughts and coping skills. When clients understand how their past relationships influence their current selves, they are better able to build new futures, with greater self-acceptance, growth, new skills, and overall happiness.

**NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. I have experience working in various mental health settings, providing psychotherapy as well as early childhood intervention and crisis intervention. I have and continue to pursue training in the impacts of trauma and loss as well as depth oriented psychotherapy. Furthermore, I am a trained yoga instructor and specialize in integrating traditional psychotherapy with body awareness when relevant. However, I also believe in working collaboratively with the client to create a therapy plan that works best for the individual.

Life is difficult at times. Creating change within oneself that is lasting and meaningful sometimes requires a little assistance. I provide evidence based psychotherapy to adolescents and adults that helps to restore the balance lost in everyday relationships. I specialize in grief and loss issues, resolving trauma, and navigating through life's transitions. Psychotherapy is always collaborative and client centered. Although life can be challenging at times, there are ways to renew purpose, reconnect, and re-establish a sense of trust. As such, my primary goal as an independent psychologist is to assist clients in achieving their very best life.

*Not currently accepting clients* As your therapist, I am committed to working with you to create a safe, compassionate, and supportive environment in which to explore your challenges, and highlight your strengths. I treat mood disorders, anxiety, self-esteem issues, addiction, life transition stressors. Additionally, I practice from a sex-positive framework and I am affirming of LGBTQ identities and polyamorous relationship structures.

Do you find yourself being attracted to romantic partners that leave you feeling unsupported and unloved, smothered and engulfed, or with whom you lose your identity? I have been very successful in assisting people with identifying patterns of behavior, attachment style, and communication issues that may have become ingrained and habitual. And then work to develop new ways of relating that are more effective and satisfying, and increase one's ability to be securely attached, comfortable with both intimacy and individuation in healthier relationships. Do you struggle with anxiety or depression, low self-esteem or lack of assertiveness?

I am a mindbody coach for individuals living with chronic pain, illness, fatigue, or other symptoms. I teach clients evidence-based tools to calm their nervous system, reduce their pain or other symptoms, and become empowered agents in their own healing. As one who has lived with chronic pain and illness for almost 30 years, I understand what it is like to feel your symptoms are running your life. After discovering the life-changing tools stemming from the new neuroscience research on chronic pain, I was finally able to reclaim my life from pain. I became a coach so that I could share these tools with you.

TRANSFORM OVEREATING! You can lose weight without depriving yourself of or punishing yourself with food. This may sound crazy, but if you learn to love the body you have, change can be lasting and genuinely satisfying. Using a holistic and non-diet approach, you will discover how to deeply care for yourself while setting loving limits with others. Together, we'll identify what makes you run to the fridge so your relationship with food is changed for good.

Using the therapeutic process I can offer many things to people: empathy and a sounding board, other ways of looking at issues, and ideas about how to solve problems. In addition, I can help you feel more alive to your experience as paying attention to your inner voice can increase your capacity to feel and be present. I have been a therapist for over twenty years. I also have taught clinical practice for ten years to students earning their masters degrees in counseling and I provide ongoing clinical supervision for people who work in various settings.

Are you a parent of a child who is struggling? Do you feel like you have to do it all? You don’t have to do this alone. Humans develop in relationship to others, and we heal that way too. My focus is on children’s relationships with their caregivers - from processing challenging life events to managing hard feelings. The children and teens I work with be struggling with worry about friendships and family relationships, challenges with big emotions, doubts about their worth or appearance, academic difficulties, navigating grief and loss or just adjusting to the realities of living through a pandemic.

We all have the capacity to heal and improve our lives. As a bilingual, bicultural, licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience, I offer tools to overcome stumbling blocs in a safe, caring environment. Together we can discuss challenges and options to enable you to change self-defeating patterns and make effective and fulfilling choices.

PLEASE NOTE: I AM NOT TAKING NEW CLIENTS AT THIS TIME. I believe that we all have wisdom within us, and my work focuses on accessing that innate wisdom to foster growth and healing. With acceptance, authenticity, and compassion, I practice an experiential approach to psychotherapy and encourage clients to actively address and explore hidden parts of themselves to gain greater self-awareness and cultivate transformation.

CURRENTLY, I HAVE A WAITLIST; YOU MAY EMAIL TO BE ADDED. Creating emotional intelligence involves many things: understanding mood changes and why certain circumstances create anxiety; communicating better in relationships and expressing feelings more positively; building skills as a parent or understanding what it means to go from couple to family. If we are in transition, in gender or in life purpose, we want to create a firmer sense of identity and direction. We want insight and the ability to create a future unbound to a traumatic past. We want to create new patterns of behavior and thinking that enhance our connection to others.

I live and come to psychology with a consciousness of interpersonal, structural and institutional oppression that many of us experience throughout our lives. You will find compassion and understanding at the cross-sections of your suffering and your identities. Whether it is anxiety, depression, social/community difficulties, I can help explore these elements so that you can harness hope, presence, and restoration.

Are you searching for a way to create new patterns and heal from trauma? Are you in need of a trusted guide to help you uncover your true nature so that you can make choices that will relieve suffering and build health and happiness? Perhaps you are experiencing difficulties or concerns with your child or yourself and are looking to find relief from the daily struggles. A nurturing therapeutic relationship can help you uncover the self-love, strength, and resilience to grow and change. With deep respect for your uniqueness and wisdom, this relationship can inspire and act as the catalyst for progress and a greater sense of self.

I AM NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS AT THIS TIME. We all go through times in life where we struggle to cope. It takes courage to ask for help. Perhaps you are dealing with a loss, an issue in your relationship, family stressors or a life transition. Whether you are seeking to gain new insights and skills or just need a place to talk through the things on your mind, I offer a safe, compassionate space. I have experience treating anxiety, depression, trauma, and sexuality/gender concerns. Additionally I treat issues related to pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting.

Working collaboratively with clients, I bring a supportive, focused, and practical approach to therapy. My aim is to assist you in making the desired changes in your life and becoming unstuck from habitual patterns. Whether what brings you to therapy is depression, anxiety, traumatic circumstances, relational challenges, or addictive patterns, the work we do together would be unique to your personal style, goals and needs. My training and experience includes Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, parts work, mindfulness and psychodynamic psychotherapies. I provide therapy in English and Spanish. I am a professionally certified yoga teacher.

My work with each client is integrative and dynamic. My "home base" is in contemporary feminist psychodynamic therapy, but I utilize techniques from CBT, DBT, internal family systems, mindfulness, and sensorimotor psychotherapy to tailor my approach to a client's presenting needs. I'm a firm believer that a person will not feel safe exploring difficult areas in therapy if they don't feel comfortable with the human sitting across from them. Therefore, I want you to see my personality and sense of humor as we collaborate, so that we can build a strong working relationship built on trust and mutual understanding.

Thank you for visiting my page. Welcome! I know that choosing a therapist is a difficult task and that embarking in a therapeutic treatment requires a lot of courage. I am certain that the warm, and nonjudgmental environment that I provide will help you feel safe and supported as you explore the problems that interfere with the way that you want to live your life. I am pleased that you have enough self-awareness to realize that you need to act now.

What if I said it is possible to heal AND thrive? That we can work as a team to equip you with the tools needed to embody lasting, deep seeded change? For over a decade, I’ve helped individuals reconnect with their authentic self, effectively manage their mental health, and flourish mind, body, and spirit. Through experience gained in the US & abroad, I’ve developed a therapeutic style which my clients define as empowering, collaborative, and interactive. I start each therapy journey with the belief that the individual is HUMAN and not their symptoms, life stressors, or illness.