Copernican Clinical Services
Treatment Center
Finances
Fees
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Visa
Insurance
- Blue Care Network
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Harvard Pilgrim
- Optum
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today License: Massachusetts / 7172
- In Practice for 26 Years
- California School of Professional Psychology, Graduated 1995
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- ADHD
- Parenting
- Education and Learning Disabilities
Expertise
- Adoption
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Anger Management Evaluation
- Anger Management Treatment
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Child
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Internet Addiction
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Mood Disorders
- Obesity
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Peer Relationships
- Psychosis
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sexual Abuse
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Teen Violence
- Thinking Disorders
- Trauma and PTSD
- Video Game Addiction
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
Age
Participants
Age
Participants
Programs and Services
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Humanistic
- IEP Implementation
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Person-Centered
- Play Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- School Coordination/Observations
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Latency Age Anger Management Group
This group is designed to address the developmental needs of younger children, 10-13 years, who are struggling with impulse controls within their school and family. Students generally require IEP supports to make effective academic progress. Social skill development is focused upon from both a school-based and familial perspective. Play therapy techniques, including collaborative movie-making activities, board game play, role-playing games, and psychodramatic techniques are used to help the participants develop their social skills, emotional expression skills, and impulse control. We tend to have a lot of fun while learning more effective ways to function in life.
Expertise
Types of Therapy
Age
Group Meets
Location
Copernican Clinical Services
44 Thornton Street
Newton, MA 02458
Adolescent Anger Management Group
This Lower-Risk Group is designed to attend to students who are currently in late-middle school or high school and struggle with their learning profiles and overall impulsivity issues secondary to an ADHD diagnoses. A large part of the group discussion emphasizes making healthy life choices, developing more sophisticated learning skills and increased metacognitive skills. The goal is to prevent group members from accelerating to higher-risk behaviors. Participants are more likely to have a history of language-based learning challenges.
Expertise
Types of Therapy
Age
Group Meets
Location
35 Bedford Street
Lexington, MA 02420
College/Vocational Transition Group
The focus of the College/Vocational Transition Group is to orient participants to the organizational and emotional challenges that are typically encountered during their transition to a successful post-high school phase of life. Topics that will are covered in this group include the negotiation of relationships with family members, organizational skill enhancement/use of technology, vocational stability/success, integration of clinical skills into multiple life domains, substance use, and the movement to an increased level of social/familial/financial independence.
Expertise
Types of Therapy
Age
Group Meets
Location
44 Thornton Street
Newton, MA 02458
Location
Primary Location
Additional Location
Copernican Clinical Services
35 Bedford Street
Suite 8, Courtyard Entrance
Lexington, MA 02420
Call David Perna
(617) 405-3203