Hello, I'm Elana Cockburn Jones at Crooked Tree Counseling. I bring over a decade of experience supporting adolescents, young adults, and families through pivotal life transitions. I specialize in helping young adults navigate the challenges of growing up—whether it's managing anxiety, building confidence, or finding direction. I honor the complexity of each client’s identity and lived experience, creating a safe and affirming space that is compassionate, collaborative, and culturally responsive...
I don't know everything, but I do know how anxiety, perfectionism, and OCD can easily take over. Whether you're managing overwhelming anxiety, intrusive thoughts, phobias, OCD, or perfectionism, I can help—and real progress is possible. I help college students and young adults navigate anxiety with proven, practical tools that bring meaningful change. As a licensed therapist in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, I bring over 15 years of experience to my work. I use evidence-...
I help bright, dynamic students deal with the anxiety and overwhelm that can creep up as you're out there doing what you always thought you were supposed to be doing. You work really hard but it's getting harder to hold it all together as you wrestle with the doubts and the stress. Your relationships might be feeling less than happy and fulfilling lately, or you're just plain overwhelmed. On the outside, you look like you have it all together - but that doesn't make you feel OK on the inside. I...
I’ve been part of the Harvard Medical School system for over a decade, first as a trainee, now as faculty member. I'm trained primarily in psychodynamic therapy, but principles/interventions from other paradigms also inform my work, and I love working with students. Ultimately, the nature of therapy depends on the patient, what they are up against, and their goals. For this reason, the course of therapy is difficult to describe, but I think it only ever works in a context of empathy, respect, an...
Marjorie Magny-Black is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who has well over 20 years in the field. She utilizes a strengths based perspective and also person in their environment perspective via understanding an individual and the way in which they relate in their world. She uses a multi-faceted approach to counseling and working with the individual to aid them in a deeper reflection of themselves and providing a safe space in order for this to occur. Her specialty areas incl...
My therapeutic orientation is guided by psychodynamic, humanistic, and relational approaches, and founded on a strengths-based model, which emphasizes that each person is the expert of their own story. My style is compassionate, empowering, and accessible, and I focus on meeting people where they are. I draw on a range of modalities including narrative therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Liberation Health, and motivational interviewing. My clinical approach is trauma-informed and collab...
Engaging in therapeutic modalities informed by psychodynamic, relational, and attachment-based frameworks, I believe profound changes occur in the context of relationships. I also incorporate strength-based approaches, person-centered therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, motivational interviewing (MI), and Relational Cultural Therapy (RCT) in my clinical practice. Deeply committed to providing culturally informed care, I am dedicated to recognizing the complexity and richness of each client...
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Hi! My name is Sam Aston and I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor at Crooked Tree Counseling, LLC in Cambridge, MA. I center my work on exploring the areas of meaning, uncertainty, and contradiction. I utilize a curious, non-judgmental, and embodied approach with a focus on your expectations and desires to assist you in better accepting, understanding and becoming who you want to be. To compliment this approach I utilize ACT, CBT, existential, psychodynamic, and mindfulness therapies and in...
Choosing the right therapist can make all the difference. Making the decision to seek out counseling is difficult enough. Crooked Tree Counseling is a group of psychotherapists who are committed to making the counseling experience a satisfying and successful one. From your first contact with us through your psychotherapy, we focus on creating positive working relationships from which healthy change can arise. We offer counseling, consultation and supervision. Located in Central Square Cambridg...
Collaborative Insight Counseling Associates (CICA) was created to make culturally sensitive mental health care accessible to the exceedingly diverse population of the Metro Boston area. We endeavor to provide high-quality, insight-oriented therapy, that is both culturally responsive and adaptable, to meet the multitude of clinical needs of our clients. Much of our clinical team prides itself in being multi-cultural and multi-lingual, while also having an expertise in a wide range of treatment ap...
At Back Bay Mental Health, we connect best with college students from Boston and Cambridge who are juggling the intense pressures of school, social life, and figuring out who they are—all while facing mental health challenges that can make it feel impossible to keep up. Whether you’re a BU student burning out from late-night study sessions, a Harvard undergrad wrestling with anxiety that’s derailing your focus, or a BC student quietly struggling with depression after a tough semester, we get it....
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with a Master's degree in Social Work from Simmons University, Massachusetts. I am fluent in English, Portuguese, and Cape Verdean Creole, and semi-fluent in Spanish. I have experience working with young adults, the elderly, and children, specializing in depression, anxiety, trauma-informed care, and stress. My therapeutic approach focuses on strength-based, solution-focused, CBT, and trauma-focused therapy. My inviting approach creates a ...
Welcome to Muk Psychiatry: Mental Health Care for College Students College is an exciting time, but it can also be overwhelming. Many students feel stressed, anxious, or down as they juggle classes, relationships, and new responsibilities. At Muk Psychiatry, we understand the unique challenges that come with being a student. Our practice is dedicated to supporting college students as they navigate academic pressures, social changes, and personal growth. Who We Help We work best with stu...
Heather Thompson-Brenner, Ph.D., is a Harvard-trained clinical psychologist and researcher in psychotherapy outcome. She uses the therapeutic methods that are best supported by research, in a warm, supportive environment. She has specialized training in exposure and response prevention (ERP), cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), psychodynamic psychotherapy, and narrative therapy. Intensive, short-term, and long-term options are available. Her specialties include anxiety disorders, eating disorders,...
Fabiana Casanova is the founder of Nova Psychotherapy. She provides individual psychotherapy to adults looking to stablish a long term therapeutic relationship. She draws from several psychodynamic theories to help patients develop a greater understanding of themselves and their relationships, create more positive patterns in how they relate to others, and experience personal growth. Fabiana is bilingual in English and Spanish and can provide therapy in both languages....
My clinical orientation primarily emphasizes psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy approaches and is rooted in relational and person-centric models. I have advanced training in psychodynamic approaches as a Fellow at the Boston Psychoanalysis Society and Institute. My style is eclectic and I derive techniques from a comprehensive range of approaches, including solution-focused, narrative, multicultural and expressive models of psychotherapy. I recognize that there are cultural lim...
Therapy is intensely personal but with the the right match you can begin to feel better. It takes courage to make that first call to start. Our work begins by focusing on your reasons for coming to therapy, whether it's a relationship problem, you're struggling with work-life balance, or you're experiencing significant anxiety or depression. I work with people from a whole person perspective/holistic approach focusing on your strengths and the things that might be getting in the way of your ...
My name is Jennifer Berfield. I hold a Master’s degree in Social Work from Bridgewater State University. I have over 13 years experience providing therapy services working in outpatient, school based, in home, and treatment facility settings. I utilize a variety of evidence-based strategies (including but not limited to CBT, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Trauma Focused CBT) with extensive experience and training in DBT. I work with all ages treating a broad...