Therapists in 04106

I'm a Master's Level Counseling Student. I help individuals from diverse backgrounds, including women, couples, teen girls, and LGBTQ+ individuals. Deeply committed to supporting women's issues and a broad spectrum of life concerns, I offer you a nurturing and empathetic space to explore feelings and experiences without judgment. Whether seeking clarity in family planning decisions, striving to embrace your true self with authenticity, navigating relationships, life transitions, grief, or anxiety and depression, I'm here to offer compassionate support and understanding to help you harness your resilience and strengths.

*** accepting new clients in person *** Life is not easy and you have made the step to seek out help, and for that you are courageous. My name is Cara and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is passionate about helping people in many stages of life. I look forward to cultivating a safe space so that I can best assist you in making steps towards your therapeutic goals.

Virago Wellness is a women's counseling center in South Portland Maine (use of the word women is inclusive of gender diversity, we serve all individuals is gender-affirming ways) Our counselors build real connections with you and provide education, information, and targeted support to empower you to make the changes you need to go from feeling alone and overwhelmed to empowered and loving life. ​​

Are you struggling with anxiety, processing a painful life event, or moving through a major life transition? Is it time to start putting your wellbeing first? I aspire to create a space where you feel empowered to get comfortable with the uncomfortable and take the lead in your healing, while my role is to be a partner in your process. I am dedicated to client-centered, trauma-informed care and approach my work with the belief that we grow from our painful experiences, life transitions, and challenges. We can use the awareness and strength that comes from those experiences to become who we are meant to be.

Bill Lagasse is a Clinical Social Worker with a 22 year history in social services working in some of Maine's top organizations and has provided care and direction to the homeless, the drug or alcohol addicted, those with trauma & identity related disorders, the LGBTQ, couples, and those struggling with mental health related issues. Bill treats adults and couples. Bill has extensive training and practice using CBT, having been formally trained by the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

EMDR Certified Therapist specializing in the treatment of anxiety, historical Trauma/PTSD, and the grief that accompanies trauma by providing evidence-based techniques. Improve your quality of life, relationships, communication, self-talk/self-image, and connect to a calmer place in your body and mind. Please send an email or leave a voicemail message and receive a response within 24-hours.

I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with offices in South Portland, Maine. I received a Masters Degree from Lesley University in Cambridge and have completed additional training in several fields including: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Dialectical Behavior Therapy; Suicide Prevention; Culturally Competent Care for Adolescents; Assessment and Treatment of Attachment, Trauma, and Addiction; The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Brain Development; and Clinical Management of Sleep Disorders. I have post-graduate training in filial therapy and play therapy. I welcome adults and adolescents.

Please Email for inquires. I am now offering Equine Assisted Therapy addition to my practice ( Monday daytime hours only) . Are you ready for change? I believe in people's resiliency and capacity for growth. Often when we are feeling stressed and overwhelmed, it is difficult to recognize our strengths. I enjoy working with people who are motivated and ready to engage in the therapy process. I can assist you in your journey towards positive change in your life

This is an agency with multiple clinicians, and we are accepting new clients at this time. If you are struggling with mental health or substance use, thank you for reaching out. Healing Tide Therapy draws from many backgrounds and theories. We can support you in many different ways, including managing mental health and substance use disorder symptoms, meeting DEEP requirements, battling urges and cravings, learning interpersonal effectiveness skills or finding your way when you are struggling to manage everyday life. Even if you just need an objective ear to listen, We can be a there.

Kaitlin Rice is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Maine who has been practicing since 2016. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Providence College and a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of New England. Kaitlin believes that every individual has the capacity for growth and change under the right circumstances and with support. She views the client as the expert on themselves and their experiences and sees her role as being a guide to help them navigate the challenges life throws at all of us.

Pursuing therapy represents a desire to heal. Whether dealing with a new challenge or an old wound, my work with clients is focused on supporting the process of healing and learning to "let go" of the harmful patterns that get in the way of feeling satisfaction, peace, and fulfillment in our lives and relationships. As a psychotherapist, my goal is to create an environment in which you can pause, reflect, and feel supported in acknowledging the emotions that many of us learn to avoid, dismiss, and push down.

Ready to heal from past experiences and stop white-knuckling it? Ready to reduce anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and disturbing memories? Get relief from trauma symptoms in days not months or years! EMDR is a research-backed approach offering faster treatment outcomes than traditional talk therapy by targeting specific memories and negative belief systems to decrease reduce symptoms and process trauma. Now accepting clients for half-day, full-day EMDR intensives, my waitlist for hour-long appt. is closed (returning clients, please contact me directly). I have additional training in recent event protocols to help prevent PTSD.

Dannielle McLean is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She completed both her undergraduate degree in Psychology and her Masters in Counseling at the University of Southern Maine. Dannielle has been working with people in inpatient and outpatient settings for the last 6 years, helping them navigate through some of the hardest times of their lives. Dannielle specializes in group and individual therapy for adults seeking support for substance use, depression, anxiety, stress management, relationship issues, personal growth, and life transitions.

I am an EMDR-certified therapist offering EMDR intensives to help clients find relief from trauma, anxiety, and depression. My clients tend to be experiencing some degree of stuckness related to what they've been through, what they're experiencing, or where they’re trying to go. Intensives offer us a unique container for working with trauma and painful life experiences by allowing us more space and time to go deep into an experience, pattern of behavior, or place you’re stuck and target the root of the issue. In this approach, therapy can become more efficient, and we can often accelerate symptom relief and healing.

I am a seasoned clinician with a relaxed and respectful approach. I enjoy working with clients who are ready to address the issues that are holding them back or getting in their way. Depression, Anxiety, Divorce, Relationship issues, Parenting, Adjustment issues, and Issues of Childhood. Therapy is an interactive process. You are the expert in your own life and experience. You will be treated as a unique individual, not a diagnosis. I give honest and direct feedback with minimal quiet nodding, (unless required).

Would you like to live your life to the fullest, invite growth and self awareness? Are parts of yourself (your Shadow self), or your life difficult to cope with? Stress and other's expectations impact us in many ways that can cause us to leave parts of ourselves behind or hidden from us. I support individuals from a person centered approach. I work from a holistic perspective considering the entirety of your experience to assist you in attaining a sense of wellbeing and wholeness.

Dr. McElligot's approach integrates a variety of modalities to meet the needs of each client and develop individualized plans that will match the unique goals each person brings into the therapy room. He has backgrounds in cognitive behavioral, acceptance and commitment, psychodynamic, humanistic/existential, and mindfulness based approaches and strategies. He also provides trauma-focused treatments including Cognitive Processing Therapy, Prolonged Exposure, Written Exposure Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Dr. McElligott provides individual, couples, group, and family therapy.

David Aronson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Maine who has been practicing since 2010. He has a BA from Dickinson College and an MSW from the University of New England. David strives to put client self-determination above all else while maintaining a clinical model following Acceptance and Commitment Therapy framework. In his spare time, David enjoys time with family, travel, and researching new and exciting topics.

Nicole is a Licensed Clinical Social worker, who earned her Master of Social work degree from the University of New England in 2013. During her previous work experience, she worked in various clinical settings focusing on medical social work, community case management, domestic violence advocacy, and counseling clients with co-occurring disorders. Recently she has worked in a hospital detox, as a Home-based Community Therapy clinician, and a Primary Therapist at a men's residential program and has over 10 years of experience. Nicole utilizes several different therapeutic approaches, but enjoys motivational interviewing the most.