Individual therapy in Massachusetts, grounded in the body as much as the mind. A trauma-informed space for working through life's challenges and the patterns you're ready to change.
My goal as a therapist is to build a collaborative relationship founded on trust, honesty, compassion, and curiosity, one that helps you gain deeper self-understanding and move toward meaningful change. Whatever you're navigating, I'll meet you where you are and bring my years of clinical experience to support your process.
Making sense of what you carry. Every person's path here is different, so the tools I use shift depending on what you need. In practice, sessions tend to draw on a few approaches:
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based model for working with the different parts of your internal system: the part that wants to move forward, the part that's protective, the part still holding onto something difficult. The goal is helping them work together instead of in conflict.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) pairs brief, structured tapping on specific points on the body with what you're feeling in the moment, to help regulate the nervous system when a thought or memory is too activating to process through talking alone.
Drawing on polyvagal theory, these are structured ways to track what your autonomic nervous system is doing and specific exercises to help regulate it when it's in a fight-or-flight or shutdown state.
Attachment theory examines how early relationships shaped what feels safe or unsafe now, and uses that framework to address patterns that keep showing up in current relationships.
Structured tools from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for working with difficult thoughts and feelings day to day, so insight in session translates into something usable outside of it.
Using creative expression as another way into material that's difficult to access through talking alone. No artistic experience or skill required.
Room to be a whole, complicated person. I work with adults navigating a range of experiences, including:
Including complex, longstanding trauma and its effects on daily life and relationships.
Generalized worry, panic, and anxiety tied to specific situations or life stages.
The emotional weight of living with an ongoing medical condition, alongside the condition itself.
Including grief that doesn't follow a tidy timeline.
Attachment wounds and recurring dynamics in close relationships.
Support that accounts for how your brain actually works, not how it's "supposed to."
Alongside individual therapy sessions billed through insurance, I offer this directly, outside of insurance.
A class developed at Stanford University, plus two individual follow-up sessions, for anyone looking for a different way to live with pain.
Empowered Relief is a research-backed, one-time class, not ongoing therapy, that teaches specific skills for managing the way pain affects your body, thoughts, and daily life. Studies have found its effects comparable to eight sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy.
You'll leave with a personalized plan you can use right away. Two individual follow-up sessions afterward help you put that plan into practice, with no ongoing commitment required.
Treatment isn't always weekly therapy. Outpatient sessions, like what I provide, are one point on a wider continuum that also includes IOP, PHP, and inpatient care. These programs are not something I run or am affiliated with, but understanding the options can be useful.
NAMI: an overview of treatment settingsHere's what to expect when you reach out.
Call or email using the contact details below, or schedule a 15-minute consultation call.
We'll start where you are, at a pace that makes sense for you.
From there, we build a private, consistent space to do the work, supporting you in reaching your own personal goals at whatever pace fits your life.
This website is not monitored in real time and is not a substitute for emergency care. This private practice does not provide crisis-level or emergency mental health services. If you are in crisis or having thoughts of suicide, please use one of the resources below or call 911.
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Last updated: September 2026
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