Family Therapy in Hanover, MA

I am a solution focused clinician with a successful track record helping individuals, teens and families overcome anxiety, depression and a general lack of motivation or direction in life. I help my clients set a clear vision for their future by helping them identify and develop personal, academic and/or career goals that truly inspires them, followed by a personalized, step-by-step plan for achieving their goals. I am also a licensed Special Education teacher and Educational Advocate. I help teens who are struggling in school get back on track and receive the appropriate level of school services they need in order to succeed.

I accept clients 17 years of age or older. Telehealth services only at this time. I encourage adults to sort out the unexpected chaos of love, work, and family so they may regain control of their lives and relationships. I help teens, 17 years of age and older, to navigate the crazy daily world they live in so they can experience their best life. I steer parents through the ups and downs of teen life so they can better understand & communicate with their children.

For 20 years I have worked closely and collaboratively with individuals, couples and families to help them develop skills to ease stress, manage difficult emotions, improve communication and strengthen relationships. If you are seeking to discover a deeper understanding of yourself, explore family issues, improve relationships or learn skills to manage complex and challenging emotions I am here to help.

**TeleHealth only (Virtual Meetings)** I currently utilize software that is secure and HIPAA-Compliant. Your confidentially is important. I work with children, adolescents, and adults. My goal is to create a safe, respectful, supportive and comfortable environment where clients can explore difficult issues and learn new skills and strategies to cope with the challenges that are being faced. My approach and clinical style is eclectic with the goal of adapting to each client's specific needs and objectives.

I am a clinician with over 25 years of experience helping people reach their personal goals and maximum potential. My proven therapeutic holistic approach, begins with establishing an empathic understanding of you as a person, teaching you to be more aware as you move through life, while you also learn to change the ineffective thoughts and behaviors that are keeping you from the life or results you want. I have worked successfully with individuals, couples and families with depression, anxiety, trauma, serious illness, suicidal ideation and self harming behaviors. If you've been disappointed with therapy in the past give me a try.

Keith Lombard is a graduate of Umass Boston with a BA in psychology and attended the Licensed Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counseling course in 2010. Keith has worked in the field of substance abuse for over 8 years and was employed by the Boston Public Health Commission before joining NEATC. Mr. Lombard has experience with individual and family counseling with the understanding that addiction is a family disease. Keith has received numerous awards for his devotion to helping those in recovery from city and state officials.

"I believe self-acceptance is the key to positive change." There are times in our lives that can become overwhelming and difficult for whatever reason, but I believe we all have the capacity to improve ourselves and achieve happiness. My goal is to create a safe, comfortable, therapeutic environment where you can feel at ease to discover who you are. Through counseling, I will assist in developing your strengths while addressing your weaknesses, teach effective coping skills and incorporate strategies to overcome obstacles in your life. My practice can accommodate children, and adults in individual, couples and family settings.

I am a certified licensed social worker specializing in the integrative holistic approach to psychotherapy, counseling and nutritional wellness with twenty-four years in private practice. I utilize my experience and applied knowledge of family systems theory, cognitive behavioral therapy, nutritional wellness, weight loss and holistic healing to help create lasting and meaningful change. Treatment and healing can only be achieved by working on the entire mind body soul connection and my role is a facilitator providing a safe and comfortable space at which the healing can begin.

I believe therapy is an active, collaborative process. I work with clients to develop tools for mastering challenges in a context of self-acceptance, and appreciation of one's own resilience and resourcefulness. My therapeutic style is eclectic, blending solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, positive psychology, and family systems approaches.

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose client population includes, individuals, couples, families and groups. Currently, I work with couples who are experiencing a loss of connection, as well as communication and intimacy difficulties. These couples are often facing life cycle transitions. I also work with families, primarily families with adolescent children. These families have children with behavioral issues, mental health challenges, and many times are dealing with trauma and loss. I also work with the LGBTQ population. My practice includes a culturally and socio-economically diverse population.

Referrals for 7 to 25-year-old clients with BCBS currently accepted. Sessions will use a strengths-based approach, respecting the resilience and resources within all of us while introducing evidence-based strategies to help you manage challenges. Together we will identify treatment goals to help focus sessions. I provide both telehealth sessions and in person therapy sessions, with the option of working with the farm animals, as my office is located on The Healing Path care farm.

- - Now Accepting New Clients - - At MPC, we practice a strengths-based and solution-focused form of counseling. Strengths-based counseling seeks to empower the individual to build on the resilience that they already have. Solution-focused approaches are generally rooted in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and take a present day look at real world challenges the client is facing. Together, these approaches can be used to create new and lasting ways to cope with challenges from stress, depression, anxiety and trauma.