I am a clinical social worker and sex therapist in Davis Square, Somerville with over 30 years of experience working with individuals and couples. I trained and worked for five years as a staff therapist at the Institute for Sexuality and Intimacy, formerly at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. I also have expertise with eating disorders, anxiety, performance issues and more. Clients say I am warm, compassionate and practical, and provide a comfortable, relaxed and safe environment. My approach is eclectic; I collaborate with each client to find the right treatment approach uniquely tailored to his/her/their needs. I use a combination of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, relaxation/mindfulness therapy, and medical hypnotherapy, efficiently providing deep and lasting change. I help people to improve self-esteem. I also use my expertise to treat stress/anxiety, eating disorders, pain, illness, smoking/habit cessation, performance issues and more. My approach combines psychotherapy with mindfulness, meditation, relaxation and self-directed hypnotherapy. I help clients find and build on their strengths, so that no matter what the reasons were that brought them to therapy, they become able to appreciate themselves in a deep and lasting way.
Qualifications: | Simmons College School of Social Work |
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Academic Suffixes: | MSW, LICSW |
Expertise: | Addiction, Alcohol Use, Anxiety, Cancer, Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Codependency, Depression, Eating Disorders, Grief, Life Transitions, Other, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Sex Therapy, Sexual Addiction, Substance Use, Trauma and PTSD, Weight Loss, Women |