Divorce Therapists in Cambridge, MA

Are you struggling with stress, anxiety, anger, or frustration and your relationships suffer for it? Are you contemplating divorce or separation and worry about the potential impact on your children? Is your child struggling emotionally, behaviorally, or even socially, and you are wondering what you can do to help? Adults who take care of their own mental health see improvements in their relationships with their children, partners, and even ex-partners. And the truth is children do better when the adults around them do better. Your children deserve healthy parenting and you deserve support.

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).

Hi, I’m John. I love to work with couples, and will also work with individuals looking to improve their relationships, especially with the hope (but not the requirement) their partner will join us. Does your relationship with your partner seem like a constant challenge to make it work, to see each other as you once did? I can help you understand what is going on between you, to communicate in a way that gives you each a broader perspective on your relationship so that you can learn to know what each other feels and find a way to work together as a team to make your relationship more fulfilling and less stressful.

Collaboratively, let's develop a conversation based on your concerns. Are you an individual or couple contemplating growth and change? My clinical practice includes developing strategies and nurturing resilience; a way to move out of enduring difficulties within the self or in relationships. I have training and clinical experience working with adopted people, birthparents, adoptive parents, and people contemplating alternate forms of reproduction or mourning the loss of fertility. I see many families that are transracially and internationally formed. When a couple's problems are intransigent, I am able to support the transtion toward the least confrontational way to take a break, separate or divorce .

I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with 25+ years experience. I consider helping people address their suffering a privilege. Learning about yourself within a therapeutic relationship can lead to a more meaningful and authentic life. I can help you with anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, parenting, divorce , sexuality, shame, acute/chronic illness, body image, grief, and change/loss/growth. I work with a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds. I am fluent in Spanish and speak some Mandarin. I will help you learn to make conscious choices that will result in your feeling empowered and more grounded.