Teletherapy for Massachusetts

Life gets hard at times with increasing demands and a finite amount of resources. As creatures of habit, we tend to get stuck in what seems like a never-ending cycle. My clients come to me with a desire for REAL change. They may be managing long-standing mental health problems and/or new and chronic medical conditions. They also seek to improve their relationships and find out what makes their life worth living. In the end, my clients appreciate introspection and understanding the past, but believe that actual concrete change is needed.

Are you looking for support and guidance at your own convenience? Would you like to improve your health and well-being while in a comforting space such as your home, and at a time that meets the needs of your family? If you are looking to re-define your future after a recent loss, looking to restore hope after an unhealthy relationship, trying to develop and maintain healthy family relationships or wanting to manage stress in your life, we can work together to develop a plan that works for you. I provide day, evening and weekend apts.

When it comes to making meaningful change through therapy, I believe the cornerstone is connection and collaboration. As a team, we will create goals and decide together on strategies to get you there. I use DBT, CBT, humor, and strengths-based perspective to help you identify and overcome that which brings you to counseling. Experienced in: anxiety disorders including PTSD, and OCD, grief and loss, depression, and others.

I specialize in alcohol and other drug addictions, adolescent and young adult issues, and help people see their behavior realistically so they use what they learn to improve their lives.

No one can be everything to everyone. Similarly, no therapist can be everything to every client. It is therefore vital for us to find our “fit” amongst what seem to be endless yet confusing options. I come originally from China and I trained with some of the most renowned multicultural psychologists during my Ph.D. career at Columbia University. Since then, I interned and worked as a bilingual therapist at Mt. Sinai-Roosevelt Hospital in NYC, Mt. Sinai-Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC, and Amherst College Counseling Center in Amherst, MA. My own cross-cultural and cross-lingual experiences continue to shape the way I work.

Do you need immediate and timely help? Are you struggling to overcome challenges and feeling overwhelmed? Look no further. As a seasoned professional with 20+ years of experience, I offer expert support and guidance to help you find practical solutions to your problems. With Telehealth sessions, I offer immediate assistance to clients all across MA, NY, FL, and IL, no matter where you are. I offer evening and Saturday appointments for your convenience if needed. Don't go it alone. Reach out to me today for timely, personalized, and compassionate assistance. Let me work with you to create a brighter tomorrow.

Next Chapter Counseling is a private practice with a focus on Narrative Therapy to help those working through a history of trauma, addiction, depression, or anxiety. The ideal client for NCC is someone who wants to work on how the events in their past such as abuse, neglect and violence affect their future. Narrative work helps people to understand their own story and to work to find new narratives within their history so that they can change their lives going forward.

Perhaps you find it difficult to establish healthy relationships; or despite your commitment and willingness to change, you continue to suffer, feeling anxious, depressed, drifting away from the person you'd like to be. Maybe you feel emotions that you can't name and/or manage. Together we can understand and work with what you are experiencing. I have decades of experience in the field of psychotherapy working with families, couples and individuals, and I specialize in the treatment of trauma using state-of-the-art, evidence-based approaches.

Are you looking to repair your self-worth, esteem, and confidence, that was damaged by life experiences whether it be from childhood trauma, a toxic work environment, racism, and a number of other horrible experiences? I help clients that have internalized those experiences believing that something is wrong with them. I'll help you change your negative and distorted view of self and regain your power. We will disrupt your thinking patterns that are impacting your ability to function and are causing distress such as depression, anxiety, and poor relationships. My ideal client is those ready to put in the healing work.

Feel lost, stuck, lonely? Having a hard time coping with a recent trauma? Going through a life transition? Open to a more holistic approach to therapy? Unlike regular talk therapy sessions, which may focus on surface issues and provide short term comfort, my holistic approach dives deeper for longer-term healing. My unique approach addresses the body, mind, and soul as they are all connected in the healing process.

I think of my work with clients as helping to meet the ongoing challenges of life that we all experience. Problems with depression, anxiety, changing abilities, trauma, loss, self identity, or difficult relationships arise for all of us from time to time. Our challenge is to understand our experiences, develop the skills to manage them, and to visualize and move forward to live the most fulfilling life we can.

I offer compassionate custom-tailored individual and couples therapy to people seeking to make meaning of their experiences, to advance their self-understanding, and to improve the quality of their lives. I am also an AASECT-certified sex therapist who helps clients improve their sexual relationship with themselves and others. My approach is relational and warm, primarily from a strengths-based psychodynamic perspective with behavioral interventions drawing from CBT/DBT and mindfulness practice. I use an interactive style to help you clarify the root of struggles, identify barriers, and create pathways to move forward.

As a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker I focus on helping individuals and couples deal with life's difficult circumstances using a variety of psycho-therapeutic styles to help people manage anxiety and depression and to improve communication, intimacy and purpose in their daily lives. Mindfulness and cognition are helpful tools in my work. As an ordained Christian therapist I utilize a spiritual perspective with those seeking such. I enjoy helping people find new life out of difficult circumstances and unhappy histories.The initial consultation includes choosing between regular psychotherapy or spiritual direction - My blog: Living Each Day with Christ.

Do you or your family feel overwhelmed? Do you live in high conflict and/or are in transition? Want to feel grounded, settled, confident and accomplished in your relationships, career or academics? I counsel, coach and mediate; adults, parents, families, couples and youths to experience purpose, confidence, organization and productivity. Are you considering restructuring your family aka legal separation or divorce and or co-parents seeking alternative dispute resolutions ? I can help each party feel heard, Ask about my work with Divorce and Family Mediation, ADHD/ADD, Parenting, Parent Alienation. Accepting New Clients.

I work best with people who have survived adverse childhood experiences, loss, abuse and trauma, and want to continue in their recovery from trauma. Learning about the nervous system and how it adapts/reacts to cues to alert us of potential danger which can assist in regaining control of ourselves and the capacity to tolerate overwhelming emotions and develop skills to cope and self regulate. I bring to the therapeutic alliance academic training and lived experience recovering from childhood trauma, sexual abuse, food addiction, substance use and cooccurring disorders such as PTSD and depression.

I feel that finding the right therapist is absolutely essential to treatment. I believe that no one therapist can meet the needs of each patient that steps into their office. I pride myself on my ability to connect with others and form genuine therapeutic relationships. I empower and help my patients to learn the abilities and skills needed to live their lives to the highest quality so they will one day no longer need to see me. Supporting and encouraging independence is key in my therapeutic practice. I am licensed to see patients in MA, CT, NY and NJ.