Therapists in Waltham, MA

I have 10 + years of experience working with children, adults, and families in multiple settings. I feel it's really important to meet each person where you are in your life and provide support and guidance. My goal is to help you in your quest for answers to life's questions and challenges. If you want to find solutions to life's unpredictable ways, contact me and let me help you through it.

Would you like to worry less, silence your inner critic, feel more comfortable asking for what you want, make more time for yourself, or simply increase your sense of wellbeing? If so, CBT may be right for you. Whether you are coping with the anxiety of everyday stressors that have just built up over time, or are facing the unique stressors of managing a chronic illness such as IBD, migraine or rheumatoid arthritis, individually tailored CBT offers easy to use, proven tools to decrease stress quickly.

I view therapy as a collaborative, client-centered process in which I help clients explore difficult emotions, ineffective behaviors, relationships, and work to increase greater self-compassion and understanding. I value building a caring and safe relationship with my clients and use humor in my work. I support young adults with a wide range of struggles and utilize a variety of therapeutic modalities. My experience consists of providing psychotherapy and neuropsychological testing in a variety of settings including schools, community mental health centers, outpatient clinics, PHPs, and residential treatment programs.

I work with clients from various walks of life ages 12 years and older who experience depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, learning disabilities, and relationship as well as emotional difficulties. No matter the reason for seeking therapy-whether to better manage your anxiety or to improve the quality of your relationships with family and friends-you’re taking the first step, and I congratulate you for that because it’s not an easy thing to do.

Through the course of a day, we all play multiple roles. Sometimes those roles can become restrictive and rigid, even inauthentic, as anxiety, depression, or shame cause us to feel less and less able to share ourselves honestly with those around us. For some, the trusting relationship created in therapy offers one of the few places where hiding is no longer necessary and one's whole self can be acknowledged without judgment, without shame. Together, we will create an environment conducive to the exploration of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that lends to greater self-understanding, new perspectives, and lasting change.

My clients seek my help in order to become more self-aware and to explore and change those problematic behaviors that cause unhappiness in their personal or professional lives. In our work together, I offer the support and guidance they need to become less vulnerable to the effects of intense or overwhelming emotions. In turn my clients learn how to be more, resilient, flexible, grounded and creative, and ultimately, become more fully engaged in their lives and relationships.

I am both a skilled Expressive Arts Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 20 years experience. I am able to integrate art and music approaches into my work. I am welcoming, warm and, although I take my work seriously, I have been told that I have a great sense of humor. I am an active, engaged listener, a participatory therapist with a distinctively eclectic style. I bring my knowledge, clinical skills and life experience in order to facilitate your self-discovery, growth and journey to wholeness and well-being. I respect the unique person you are.

My practice is centered on the idea of walking with each other. As a therapist, my goal is to travel with you wherever the road may take us. I consider it a privilege to be invited into the sacred space of your story – to bear witness to all that you share as we navigate, together, this part of your journey.

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful parts of us.” Deciding to go to therapy isn’t the easiest thing to do but it can be helpful when wanting to discover our own beautiful parts. Everyone deserves the opportunity to be able to have the time and space to divulge into their lives and become the best person they can be.

Ethan G Harris is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with over forty years of experience treating individuals, couples, and families with issues ranging from depression, anxiety and low self-esteem to life transitions and marital and relationship issues. Recently, I have been specializing in couples counseling.

My team and I help individuals and couples. Our ideal client is someone who's interested in both healing and growth, who is goal oriented, and knows that how we make sense of things is fundamental. The symptoms about which we suffer are also an invitation to remember what we couldn't handle so that we heal and grow. I'm best suited to treating you where you're stuck, be it physical (like chronic pain, auto-immune), mental (like anxiety), emotional (like depression), relational (partners, children, parents, people you work with), and spiritual (like alienation).

I am licensed in the state of Massachusetts and Florida. I attended a Christian college for my undergraduate degree at Eastern Nazarene a college affiliated through the church of the Nazarene. The social work department at the college mirrored and was taught social work through a Christian perspective and philosophies taken from the stories of the bible. I completed my graduate degree at Simmons School of Social Work in Boston Massachusetts, getting an MSW, and an Urban Leadership certificate.

Have you been feeling overwhelmed and stressed out recently? I help young women and college students struggling with stress and anxiety. Being a young woman and trying to find your way into adulthood is not an easy path. Anxiety is a common feeling during this time, and a natural human emotion, but too much of it can prevent us from leading the life we want.

Whatever brought you here at this time, welcome. Life is unpredictable and just when we feel we have a grasp on our reality, it changes. It is normal to find yourself overwhelmed, anxious, or maybe even unable to identify what you’re feeling. Together we can work to give name to your emotions, identify what areas of your life are confusing or chaotic, and work toward achieving a better quality of life. I’m here to help build and develop your life ‘toolkit’ in a safe and honest space.

I am a licensed independent social worker , licensed in MA and ME, with 20+ years of experience providing therapy for children, adolescents and adults. I enjoy working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Clients describe me as warm, empathic, flexible, genuine, humorous and direct. I view the therapy process as a collaborative one in which you and I work together to address your challenges and allow you to move forward in a healthy way.

I am interested in helping individuals (age 30 and above) feel more comfortable within themselves, their personal relationships and work lives : men and women who struggle to understand themselves more fully, and make meaningful/appropriate changes. Expertise includes professional/life coaching, relationship issues, anxiety, and ways to achieve healthier lifestyle routines. I am skilled in individual and couples therapy modalities, believing that early childhood as well as socioeconomic/cultural factors affect development .

As a licensed therapist with over 12 years of experience supporting those struggling with mental health and addiction, I have provided on going support and guidance utilizing a diverse set of treatment approaches. I have extensive experience supporting those diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety based disorders (OCD, GAD, ADHD), Bipolar disorders (1 and 2), PTSD, Austim Spectrum Disorder and Personality disorders. My goal has always been to support others in reaching the healthy quality of life that they strive for by utilizing an individualized approach in their treatment plan.

I seek to create a safe and nurturing environment which supports healing and growth. I have an eclectic approach that is tailored to each individual client and what feels most helpful in the moment. I make use of Psychodynamic insight oriented psychotherapy, CBT, the Expressive Arts, Focusing, Relaxation Training and more, within a Holistic/Mindfulness and Strength-Based approach. I work with adults and children. I support adults through: life transitions, grief, relationship struggles, women's issues, anxiety, depression, caregiver stress, being an adult child of an alcoholic or other dysfunction, young adult identity issues, stress management and more. I am LGBT friendly.

I want to connect with you to help you address issues that are preventing you from moving forward in your life. I specialize in addiction, domestic violence, depression, and trauma and I want to help my clients identify negative thoughts and maladaptive behavior patterns and understand the impact. Understanding what you can and can't change is part of this equation as is recognizing how your thoughts impact your feelings about yourself and those around you.