Therapists in Stockbridge, MA

I am a clinical psychologist and a board certified psychoanalyst whose treatment focus is on empathy and in-depth appreciation of your unique experience. This creates an atmosphere of acceptance, compassion and collaboration, which helps foster a sense of trust and safety. In this environment we face your immediate concerns, as well as the repetitive patterns which may inhibit growth, satisfaction and reaching your potential. The work of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis is for us to understand and explain these themes to improve and enhance your emotional well being.

My work as an individual psychotherapist focuses on helping people develop greater self-esteem, more satisfying relationships, and greater ease and fulfillment in their lives. We work towards reducing distressing feelings, and identifying and resolving problems that stand in the way of your leading the life you would like to have. A deeper understanding of past experiences can be key to resolving unhealthy patterns of thinking and behavior. Bringing this understanding into the present, you then have tools to meet whatever occurs in daily life with greater clarity.

After a twenty-year career in the education field, I am confident we can work together effectively on what has brought you to the point of reaching out for help. My style of counseling combines an awareness of how past experiences impact our thinking and behaviors with a mindfulness-based appreciation of our unchanging core. If you're in a troubling relationship I help to develop safe spaces to deepen connection and intimacy through deep listening and self-compassion. Families looking for help with teens can expect a variety of concrete approaches to engage them involving multiple family members as appropriate.

Currently accepting new clients! Have you noticed patterns in your life you'd like to change? Negative moods? Unexplained pain? Often these are signs of unresolved trauma. Therapy can help us understand and integrate the meaning enabling us to make changes to our behavior so that we are more successful in our personal and professional lives. I work with adults, children from as young as 2 yrs old, and families. My work is strength based, empowering people to meet personal goals, improve relationships and develop a more comfortable, meaningful life. I attend to the mind body connection. My approach is solution focused and playful.

I provide psychotherapy focused on helping individuals better understand their struggles in an effort to create significant and meaningful change. I work collaboratively with patients to develop a treatment plan and goals for therapy that reflect the singular nature of their experience while providing a safe space to deepen their self-understanding and understanding of their relationships with others. I am primarily focused on the context for and meaning of an individual's struggles as they pursue health.

**The best way to reach me is through the waitlist form submission on my personal website** As a therapist, I aim to help my clients achieve and maintain the best version of themselves. My hope is that through the power of the therapeutic relationship, clients are able to be vulnerable, explore their authentic selves, and learn the tools necessary to help them cope with the struggles in their daily lives and relationships. Through the reflection of past experiences and the exploration of present thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, I work to help my clients gain insight and facilitate change in their lives.

I offer a customized approach for individuals, couples, families and adolescents with a variety of skill deficits, adjustment symptoms and trauma. My areas of expertise include mood regulation, sensory perception, promoting self leadership, encouraging self acceptance, facilitating healing, instilling hope, awakening vitality, inspiring joy, enriching relationships, and fostering connections with nature, self and others.

Integrating my training as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with three decades of coaching and playing competitive soccer, I developed a unique style of integrating my passion for athleticism and team into my psychotherapy and coaching practice. The majority of my practice focuses on adolescent and young adult men who struggle with the transformation into productive, successful leaders. I refer to this population as the "Lost Generation of Boys". While the quest for understanding the past is important to the process, achieving goals, identifying obstacles, considering options, and defining action steps is the essence of the work. "Trying" is understandable but "Doing" is essential!

If you find yourself wondering why you have the difficulties that you have and are at a loss for how to effect real change, you are not alone. Our symptoms are most often expressions of the best solutions we can find to cope with our deepest wounds. However, these solutions can become wounds of their own, and often draw us further from the sources of our suffering, leaving us feeling stuck, hopeless and confused.

I believe everyone has the capacity to change and improve the quality of their life, no matter what has happened. My style of counseling combines working with insight and cognitive therapy, which explores past events in light of how the choices we now make affect well - being. I also utilize an awareness approach, whereby, getting in touch and releasing the feelings in the body helps to create a new sense of relief and empowerment.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist. I take a developmental standpoint and work with my patients around where they have become stuck in their lives. My treatments are highly individualized based on what my patients wish to work on and what we negotiate together as treatment goals. I have experience working with a diverse range of people confronting issues such as major life transitions, experiences of adversity and trauma, and cultural adjustment.

Are you seeking freedom from your suffering? Do you sometimes feel as if you are trapped in barbed wire and trying to get out only hurts more? Perhaps you are stuck in relationship that no longer serves you or is impacting your wellbeing. Distressing life experiences can contribute to symptoms of PTSD, depression, anxiety, stress, and general dissatisfaction with life. There is hope in healing the impact of past events or troubling ongoing mental health struggles which seem to impact all aspect of your life. I have had the opportunity to experience my clients find balance, liberation, and empowerment through our work together.

Providing care for people encountering problems with substance use, anxiety, OCD, depression, and sleep issues. Psychological science combined with care and compassion can be very helpful in finding ways to move forward with these difficult experiences. Acceptance-based behavioral therapies focus on building skills and developing new patterns of behavior that can deepen a sense of meaning and engagement with life.

An internal-external therapist I focus on increasing awareness of internal parts and how they interfere with or fascilutate life, family, work, faith (external systems). With 20 years of therapy experience, I have spent the last 4 years in recovering from two traumas: one emotional and the other physical (2014-18), These events have changed my life, my relationships & how I develop intervention plans for people that are not based on my understanding or training but on how the client's inner & outer world are interconnected or fragmented. I have with renewed passion opened my office. LCSW, MFT/IFS Trained.

Let’s kick stress & anxiety to the curb! I can help you change the ways you respond to stress, develop coping skills, and improve your relationships. I work with individuals as well as couples, especially when one or both partners struggle with anxiety or trauma. I use a mind-body approach to help my clients make profound change. You can decrease tension, worry, self-doubt, or feelings of isolation and discover more energy, joy, connection and support.

Men and women who appear to benefit the most from working with me are those who arrive via their own motivation. They are clear that something is not working for them and they are open to investigating what might move them forward. Having curiosity as well as a willingness to expand their "comfort zone" contributes to a successful outcome. It is my intention to assist a client in expanding their understanding of their situation, others and themselves. Being "mindful" is more than a slogan; learning to be with things as they are or make changes adds greatly to well-being.

Are you struggling just to get through the day? Do you look to others for approval? Do you feel uncomfortable in your own skin? Do you lack the courage to be your "authentic self"? Have you been acting "as if" you're okay, but really feel like you're "not good enough", "defective", and "unlovable"? Do you feel hopeless? I'd like to help. I am a compassionate and interactive therapist who will provide a safe, and non-judgemental environment where you can safely explore your feelings and develop curiosity about your life. Let me help you rediscover your strengths, your authentic self and your unique truth.

I've learned in over thirty-five years in the field that anyone who wants change can benefit from a therapy that is geared toward increased self-awareness. Psychotherapy is an empowering experience that helps people improve relationships, reach higher income, quality of life, and educational goals. Understanding the world we live in, and who we are, is a key to open those doors to greater satisfaction, fewer frustrations, and a greater sense of possibilites. Therapy can, and should produce answers to questions about why things are not working out, and what actually does work

SHIFT HAPPENS. You cannot stop the changing tide . Follow your passion, change your career, rebuild self-esteem, strengthen relationships, control addiction, delete stress, find balance in your life. You need a therapist who has first hand experience and empathic approach to make you successful. There is no SINGLE method that works for all people. I focus on the individual needs and responses of my clients to ensure that they are free of cookie-cutter therapeutic approaches or psyhchobabble, where the individual always counts first. You owe it to yourself to experience the strength you can gain from the right guide.