Optum Therapists in Oxford, MA

I work with children, adolescents and adults to promote learning, healing and growing. As a Client of mine, we focus on your strengths while we work towards managing your setbacks, pressures, and losses that life presents. I would support you to cope emotionally and rationally with these challenges. To build your resilience and power, I listen openly to who you are and who you want to become while gently pointing out reality .

Life is sometimes met with challenges, disappointments, confusion, loss, betrayal and fear; these feelings, thoughts and experiences have proven difficult for us to navigate at times and thus may require professional help to find a path forward. The focus is to assist clients in developing the necessary skills to be mentally resilient, better function in relationships, explore/own sexual -self, develop a healthy sense of self and be confident with their own identities.

MY PRACTICE IS CURRENTLY FULL. I am a clinical psychologist licensed in Massachusetts and I conduct all of my sessions online. All sessions are conducted over a secure, HIPAA-compliant tele-health platform. I have extensive experience working with individuals, couples and families. I have worked with people across the developmental spectrum, from children to elder adults, for nearly 2 decades. My specialty is helping people address the challenges that get in the way of living a completely fulfilled life. Mood disorders, trauma, grief and loss, as well as difficult life transitions are some of these challenges.

I specialize in treating children, adolescents and couples. My initial focus is to establish a therapeutic relationship with my persons who I work with as I believe that is the foundation for effective therapy. I currently have evening appointments on a weekday in addition to weekends. I offer empathetic listening and also provide direct but therapeutic feedback and support to the individuals I work with. I strongly believe in meeting my clients where he or she is at and facilitating him or her in addressing the presenting problems.

***I am not taking on new clients at this time*** You can make change. The one guarantee in life is change, though many of us have a hard time seeing any positive change in our lives. I am here to help you see the positive that life has to offer, even in the darkest of times. Maybe you are feeling stuck with no energy or motivation to push through or controlled by your fears or maybe you and your significant other just can’t seem to find common ground anymore, this is where I can help.

Do you ever feel like all you can do is throw your arms up in the air? Do you just want to feel like a whole person again? Whether it is work, school, finances, relationships, children or some other source of stress, an excellent way to get back on confident feet is to work with a skilled clinician such as myself. Therapy can help build coping skills to manage life challenges, gain skills to redirect misguided or distorted thoughts and process emotions in order to have a better understanding of personal needs and how to meet them.

I work with children, youth, adolescents, and adults. My primary focus in treatment is to put your needs first; your happiness first. Be it sadness, anger, trauma, attention, or behavior, I have a flexible and effective skillset to better meet your self-identified goals. For guardians who have a child who is identified as “difficult to engage” I have experienced multiple successes, also with people reporting having prior negative therapy experience. I have worked with an at-risk population since 2002, including residential, CBHI, early intervention and Outpatient therapy.