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.

Many of us are facing overwhelming changes right now and are looking for a place to sort through it all. You may seek to deepen insight, heal, and make meaning of your challenges. Perhaps you are experiencing anxiety, a major life transition, or difficulties in your relationships. You may also have lived with trauma or chronic illness and wish to have a space that's safe and free of judgment in order to process your experiences and move forward with a renewed sense of purpose and understanding.

*Practice is currently full* I am an MGH-affiliated psychologist with a private practice in Arlington for adults and young adults. Specialties include managing stress; depression; anxiety (social anxiety, panic, generalized anxiety); relationship concerns; and coping with infertility, cancer, and other medical illnesses. I have also worked extensively with clients whose lives have been impacted by family members, partners, or others close to them who have personality disorders, depression, or other illnesses. My training and experience is in cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and most recently, mindfulness-based approaches.

Navigating the complexities of life is a challenging endeavor. There are times when we find ourselves at personal or professional crossroads: unsure which course to follow or overwhelmed by change or loss. At these times it is important to have a safe space and guidance to find your way. As your therapist, I can help you explore your feelings, reflect upon your experiences, and make changes so that you will achieve greater meaning and satisfaction in your life. My style is warm, attentive, thoughtful and practical, and my approach to therapy is informed by psychodynamic and relational methods.

Psychotherapy helps people face what is difficult in their lives. Beyond providing relief and support, growth in therapy leads to increased agency and purpose, more satisfying relationships, and to greater spontaneity and flexibility. I see people with complex histories who present with anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. I am engaged, committed and practical in my approach to helping people. I continue to train in experiential dynamic therapy models, which help clients access emotions and outgrow longstanding and broken coping strategies. These models include AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), IFS (Internal Family Systems), EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples) and ISTDP (Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy).

Are you looking for a safe place to address feelings and behaviors that seem overwhelming? With a direct and gentle approach, and over twenty years of experience, I offer the space you need to feel safe and begin to notice your own life patterns. Getting unstuck means developing increased awareness and finding new ways of being in our relationship with ourselves and others. I work with people to address concerns from sadness, grief, loss, depression, shame, low motivation, excessive worry, eating disorders, and adjustment to the many challenges and transitions in life.

Over the past 20 years I have learned that my clients come to therapy to be heard, understood, and to make sense of the complicated issues and relationships in their lives. People begin therapy for many reasons; feeling stuck, overwhelmed,confused or consumed with anxiety and depression. Couples come to therapy to improve their communication, to increase their co-parenting skills, or to enhance their emotional and physical intimacy. A good psychotherapy relationship can improve your feeling of well-being. It can be helpful during periods of transition and provide a safe place to explore past traumas or recent losses.

There are numerous reasons why people seek psychotherapy ranging from finding solutions to dealing with particular events in their life, having an opportunity to explore various feelings that an individual is experiencing and having trouble dealing with, to wanting to make some life changes but finding it hard to do so on their own. Therefore, I believe in tailoring my approach to the individual's needs.

NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. I work with individuals/couples to integrate mind, body and spirit with evidence-based clinical approaches to heal emotional struggles, build sustainable health and wellness, and help transform your life and relationships. Your sessions may include frank and thought-provoking discussion of your emotional road blocks, including concrete ways to support and heal your emotional fragilities; a guided mindfulness or Brainspotting exercise; and dialogue and practice for connecting to your innate strengths, clarity, and contentment. Together we will focus on tangible, on-the-ground results in your life.

NOTE: I AM PRESENTLY NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. I enjoy helping individuals and couples overcome whatever is preventing them from experiencing greater health, emotional well-being and fulfillment in their lives. For nearly 24 years, as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, I have provided counseling to clients dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, life transitions and loss, recovery issues, career change, as well as creative blocks. In addition to my expertise, I bring warmth, compassion and humor to each session, along with a deep respect for clients' strengths and experiences.

I create a safe,supportive and nurturing environment for change to take place.I guide you in making changes that allow you to feel more successful,satisfied and empowered in your life. Along with this comes fulfilling relationships and work, enhanced self-esteem, physical well-being and more connection to yourself.I assist you in learning to interrupt negative patterns and self-defeating behaviors and help you replace them with positive feelings,new beliefs and life affirming behaviors.In the process you discover inner resources and develop self-acceptance and self compassion.I bring warmth,humor,compassion and wisdom to the process.

Loss, uncertainty, and feeling overwhelmed are part of being human. We all experience moments in life that challenge our capacity to cope. Whether you are navigating a life transition, such as a new relationship, aging, new child, or struggling with depression, anxiety, issues around sexuality/gender identity, infertility, loss/grief, medical crisis, my hope is to create a calm, empathic, safe space in which we can explore these issues together. I offer a holistic approach that takes into consideration the interconnectedness of our physical, emotional, and social selves and am committed to helping individuals improve these aspects of well-being, as well as their relationships.

I see patients searching for meaning and fulfillment in their lives, or wrestling with existential issues of loneliness, a sense of loss or mild to profound disconnection. Sometimes this coincides with anxiety, depression, trauma, difficulty relating to others, or a lack of comfort living in their own body.

I have 30+ years of experience working as a therapist with a variety of clients, from people going through life stage readjustments to people who have severe psychiatric Illness. My warm, empathic, interactive style complements my clinical expertise.

These seem like such trying times, and you want support to feel better and solve what may feel like impossible challenges. You’re tired of trying on your own, or just want to feel more hopeful, to find lasting solutions and peace. I can help with stressful adjustments and life problems, family conflict or parenting struggles, and healing difficult past experiences that still get in the way. I listen carefully and will help identify the best areas to work on, and the most effective ways to do so. I have worked for many years with all kinds of people. Not much surprises me, and I relate well to students as well as older adults.

****NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS****. In more than thirty years of practice, I have worked with a wide variety of patients to help them better understand themselves and their behavior, and to help them develop new ways of coping,and better methods of dealing with stress. If you come to me for psychotherapy, we will figure out together how your past experiences have led you to form coping strategies which may now be interfering with your reaching current life goals.

Other people think you’ve “got it all together” but inside it really doesn’t feel like that. You have done a good job of keeping certain parts of yourself well disguised from others, thinking “If they knew this about me they would….” You wonder what it might be like to stop living a double life. Therapy with me is a gradual process of getting to know what happened to you. It is not a quick fix because nothing about you is broken. Some areas I focus on include; relational trauma, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, body shame/restrictive eating and experiences of being marginalized.

Eva Mendes, LMHC, NCC is an Asperger's/Autism expert and master couples' counselor working with couples where one or both partners have Asperger Syndrome/Autism Spectrum Disorder (diagnosed or suspected). Eva also specializes in working with Asperger's/ASD/ADHD females. Other profiles that she specializes in are ADHD, Social Communication Pragmatic Disorder, and gifted individuals. People often seek out Eva's expertise after many years of confusion regarding these profiles. Eva is the author of two books: Marriage and Lasting Relationships with Asperger's Syndrome and Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism. Available on Amazon.com

It is often difficult to be your unique, human self. How wonderful you have the courage to propel hope for deep and lasting change for your emotional struggles. Adults in individual and couples therapy deserve to experience loving relationships, and freedom from anxiety, depression, trauma, ADD, and one's idiomatic patterns of difficulty. When your strengths come to the fore, problems lose their hold and you truly feel lovingly in charge of your own life. Your power emerges. When your inner life is enriched, you increase possibilities for money, and experience more abundance in life. Your private education becomes a great overall investment.