In Person Therapists in Amherst, MA
My role as a psychologist is to help you learn, get unstuck, and take control in your life. By creating a safe, nonjudgmental space, I hope to encourage your sense of connection, empowerment, and insight as we address your concerns. I believe the quality of the therapist-client relationship is the most important foundation of good therapy, and I work collaboratively with clients using several approaches, including CBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy.
My role as a psychologist is to help you learn, get unstuck, and take control in your life. By creating a safe, nonjudgmental space, I hope to encourage your sense of connection, empowerment, and insight as we address your concerns. I believe the quality of the therapist-client relationship is the most important foundation of good therapy, and I work collaboratively with clients using several approaches, including CBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy.
Constantly struggling with food, body image, or weight shame is exhausting. It can feel like a broken record- the yo-yo diets, binge eating, feeling disconnected from your body, overwhelmed around food, feeling not enough and too much at the same time. You're over it. You're ready for things to feel easier- to reclaim your energy and to trust yourself more. Whether you're new to this place of questioning and frustration -OR- you already have a strong sense of self and body but could benefit from support navigating a world full of harmful body hierarchies, I'm so glad you're here.
Constantly struggling with food, body image, or weight shame is exhausting. It can feel like a broken record- the yo-yo diets, binge eating, feeling disconnected from your body, overwhelmed around food, feeling not enough and too much at the same time. You're over it. You're ready for things to feel easier- to reclaim your energy and to trust yourself more. Whether you're new to this place of questioning and frustration -OR- you already have a strong sense of self and body but could benefit from support navigating a world full of harmful body hierarchies, I'm so glad you're here.
At times we find ourselves confronted by stressful situations, like an impasse with a boss, conflict at home, financial or school-related pressures, major life transitions, losses and health issues, to name a few. How can one find the strength and courage needed to deal with a complex problem at hand, without giving up and succumbing to pain and suffering? I would like to offer you supportive compassionate guidance and professional knowledge to help you succeed in dealing with challenges in your life.
At times we find ourselves confronted by stressful situations, like an impasse with a boss, conflict at home, financial or school-related pressures, major life transitions, losses and health issues, to name a few. How can one find the strength and courage needed to deal with a complex problem at hand, without giving up and succumbing to pain and suffering? I would like to offer you supportive compassionate guidance and professional knowledge to help you succeed in dealing with challenges in your life.
I specialize in using mindfulness, meditation, movement, nutrition, supplementation, and holistic modalities. I enjoy working with people seeking to make a change in their health and discover their inner-potential. I work with adolescents, young adults, adults, elderly, couples and families.
I specialize in using mindfulness, meditation, movement, nutrition, supplementation, and holistic modalities. I enjoy working with people seeking to make a change in their health and discover their inner-potential. I work with adolescents, young adults, adults, elderly, couples and families.
Parents, check out my free website, deepdiveparenting.com, to gain greater insight into what's going on inside your child. At this time, I don't have openings for new, ongoing clients, but I am offering Parenting Consultations, a series of 3-5 sessions where we focus on the roots of your child's behavior and what you can do. In these consultations, I work with parents around a wide range of issues, such as their child's anger or anxiety, defiant or acting out behaviors, neurodiversity, various types of trauma (including medical), and depression.
Parents, check out my free website, deepdiveparenting.com, to gain greater insight into what's going on inside your child. At this time, I don't have openings for new, ongoing clients, but I am offering Parenting Consultations, a series of 3-5 sessions where we focus on the roots of your child's behavior and what you can do. In these consultations, I work with parents around a wide range of issues, such as their child's anger or anxiety, defiant or acting out behaviors, neurodiversity, various types of trauma (including medical), and depression.
Dr. Jamie D. Daniels - Polestar Therapy
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD, LICSW, MSW
Verified Verified
Amherst, MA 01002
My practice is accepting patients. My office is conveniently located in the center of downtown, Amherst. I am a trauma informed clinician, and I approach treatment utilizing anti-oppressive and liberatory frameworks. My work is relationship based and culturally responsive. I address issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class oppression fluidly, and integrate identity development and social position in treatment. My clinical orientation is psychodynamic, utilizing cognitive and behavioral strategies when appropriate. I have engaged a range of issues including trauma, anxiety, depression, relational concerns, poverty and isolation.
My practice is accepting patients. My office is conveniently located in the center of downtown, Amherst. I am a trauma informed clinician, and I approach treatment utilizing anti-oppressive and liberatory frameworks. My work is relationship based and culturally responsive. I address issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class oppression fluidly, and integrate identity development and social position in treatment. My clinical orientation is psychodynamic, utilizing cognitive and behavioral strategies when appropriate. I have engaged a range of issues including trauma, anxiety, depression, relational concerns, poverty and isolation.
I am a trained Expressive Arts Therapist and Certified Therapeutic Coach that can help to facilitate your recovery process from various life challenges. I lead meditation groups, coach & advise online and I work in person nationally with clients as a coach/companion. My style is a holistic and compassionate approach to health and healing, treating the body, mind and spirit.
I am a trained Expressive Arts Therapist and Certified Therapeutic Coach that can help to facilitate your recovery process from various life challenges. I lead meditation groups, coach & advise online and I work in person nationally with clients as a coach/companion. My style is a holistic and compassionate approach to health and healing, treating the body, mind and spirit.
Caroline creates a safe place for a person to speak openly, to process and reflect, to learn, and to grow. Caroline is warm, empathetic, and cares deeply for her clients, allowing them to direct the conversation, celebrating with them in their growth, and willingly sitting with them in their pain. For people feeling stuck in negative thoughts, emotions, or trapped in a cycle of unwanted actions or reactions, Caroline believes that counseling offers unique insights that only come from processing one’s thoughts and feelings out loud with a safe person.
Caroline creates a safe place for a person to speak openly, to process and reflect, to learn, and to grow. Caroline is warm, empathetic, and cares deeply for her clients, allowing them to direct the conversation, celebrating with them in their growth, and willingly sitting with them in their pain. For people feeling stuck in negative thoughts, emotions, or trapped in a cycle of unwanted actions or reactions, Caroline believes that counseling offers unique insights that only come from processing one’s thoughts and feelings out loud with a safe person.
Asher Pandjiris
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, MA, LCSW
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Amherst, MA 01002
My clients are typically “high achievers,” parentified children or people pleasers who seek to know themselves more deeply. I specialize in working with disordered eating, life transitions, anxiety and depression. Our work together offers a space to bring into more conscious awareness, unacknowledged pain, longings and barriers to substantive nourishment of self. When the remnants of our past emerge in our present, it can feel disorienting and painful. I offer curiosity, warmth and empathy towards these emergent experiences and accompany you in deepening your self-understanding.
My clients are typically “high achievers,” parentified children or people pleasers who seek to know themselves more deeply. I specialize in working with disordered eating, life transitions, anxiety and depression. Our work together offers a space to bring into more conscious awareness, unacknowledged pain, longings and barriers to substantive nourishment of self. When the remnants of our past emerge in our present, it can feel disorienting and painful. I offer curiosity, warmth and empathy towards these emergent experiences and accompany you in deepening your self-understanding.
Things that happened to us in childhood create how we see ourselves and how we show up in relationships. Whether through neglect or abuse, we give up on our feelings, needs, vulnerability, and human connection. And as a result, as adults we feel alone, anxious, or hopeless. I can help you claim what was not afforded to you while you were growing up. And live a life with vitality, flow, a sense of belonging, depth in relationship, and authentic aliveness. I have master level training to help you find personal freedom from the past and live your best days now. You can make shifts that are life changing and long term!
Things that happened to us in childhood create how we see ourselves and how we show up in relationships. Whether through neglect or abuse, we give up on our feelings, needs, vulnerability, and human connection. And as a result, as adults we feel alone, anxious, or hopeless. I can help you claim what was not afforded to you while you were growing up. And live a life with vitality, flow, a sense of belonging, depth in relationship, and authentic aliveness. I have master level training to help you find personal freedom from the past and live your best days now. You can make shifts that are life changing and long term!
I provide individual and couples therapy, as well as psychological and neuropsychological evaluations. As a therapist, I specialize in treating anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma, and depression. I am committed to creating a therapeutic space that fosters bravery and invites people to reveal their authentic selves. Because I believe that therapy is most beneficial when it is lively and collaborative, I use a direct and open manner in treatment. I will work with you to create a therapy that is effective for you as an individual.
I provide individual and couples therapy, as well as psychological and neuropsychological evaluations. As a therapist, I specialize in treating anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma, and depression. I am committed to creating a therapeutic space that fosters bravery and invites people to reveal their authentic selves. Because I believe that therapy is most beneficial when it is lively and collaborative, I use a direct and open manner in treatment. I will work with you to create a therapy that is effective for you as an individual.
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You want to talk about what's on your mind, but it's tough. You don't want someone to try to 'fix' you, give you unwanted advice, or make you feel judged. You want a confidential space where you can talk things out, reflect, and really be heard. I believe that you have a strong desire to grow and succeed within you, no matter how buried or blocked. You don't need people to tell you what to do, but maybe a space to slow down and make sense of things. I specialize in working with grad students, ADHD, men's issues, and relationship and interpersonal concerns. I also frequently provide support to other therapists.
You want to talk about what's on your mind, but it's tough. You don't want someone to try to 'fix' you, give you unwanted advice, or make you feel judged. You want a confidential space where you can talk things out, reflect, and really be heard. I believe that you have a strong desire to grow and succeed within you, no matter how buried or blocked. You don't need people to tell you what to do, but maybe a space to slow down and make sense of things. I specialize in working with grad students, ADHD, men's issues, and relationship and interpersonal concerns. I also frequently provide support to other therapists.
Heart's Journey Counseling w/Spiritual Perspective
Abriete, Medore, MEd
Verified Verified
Amherst, MA 01002
Now Accepting New Clients. I am here to help individuals and couples find a deeper experience of aliveness, love, and joy in their lives. Using a combination of deep listening, spiritual coaching, energy work, and over 30 years of experience listening and learning from the Divine, my clients very quickly experience relief from the sense of frustration and helplessness that can come from experiencing long standing challenges. I have a proven track record of helping couples rejuvenate their relationship and find new ways through patterns of fighting and strife.
Now Accepting New Clients. I am here to help individuals and couples find a deeper experience of aliveness, love, and joy in their lives. Using a combination of deep listening, spiritual coaching, energy work, and over 30 years of experience listening and learning from the Divine, my clients very quickly experience relief from the sense of frustration and helplessness that can come from experiencing long standing challenges. I have a proven track record of helping couples rejuvenate their relationship and find new ways through patterns of fighting and strife.
Effective therapy offers more than relief from painful feelings. Therapy can also help you meet life's challenges in new and more flexible ways, grow beyond frustrating patterns that constrain your potential, and develop a more fulfilling relationship to yourself and to others. We will work together to make sense of who you are as a person, including the life experiences that have shaped how you relate to yourself and to the world.
Effective therapy offers more than relief from painful feelings. Therapy can also help you meet life's challenges in new and more flexible ways, grow beyond frustrating patterns that constrain your potential, and develop a more fulfilling relationship to yourself and to others. We will work together to make sense of who you are as a person, including the life experiences that have shaped how you relate to yourself and to the world.
I am a licensed psychologist specializing in therapy with children and adolescents. I believe we all develop "ways of being" in the world as a result of our innate temperament and early experiences. Psychotherapy and psychological testing offer the chance to look at these ways of being with a compassionate lens, honoring the value they have held in your life while determining whether they are still useful to you now. Through this process, new ways of being can emerge, leading to greater satisfaction in your life.
I am a licensed psychologist specializing in therapy with children and adolescents. I believe we all develop "ways of being" in the world as a result of our innate temperament and early experiences. Psychotherapy and psychological testing offer the chance to look at these ways of being with a compassionate lens, honoring the value they have held in your life while determining whether they are still useful to you now. Through this process, new ways of being can emerge, leading to greater satisfaction in your life.
Getting swallowed up by overthinking and people pleasing? Trying to control your environment just to feel safe? Maybe you put up walls that feel isolating or you just numb out. It’s not your fault. These are symptoms of a disregulated nervous system. Now imagine what it would feel like to be comfortable in your skin, to say what needs to be said without fear, and feel safe and alive. Maybe you can’t imagine. But, if it’s appealing, let’s talk. I specialize in post trauma growth. Using both Somatic Experiencing and Organic Intelligence, I help people reset their biology. We work with emotions that are held in the body.
Getting swallowed up by overthinking and people pleasing? Trying to control your environment just to feel safe? Maybe you put up walls that feel isolating or you just numb out. It’s not your fault. These are symptoms of a disregulated nervous system. Now imagine what it would feel like to be comfortable in your skin, to say what needs to be said without fear, and feel safe and alive. Maybe you can’t imagine. But, if it’s appealing, let’s talk. I specialize in post trauma growth. Using both Somatic Experiencing and Organic Intelligence, I help people reset their biology. We work with emotions that are held in the body.
Catharine Sena
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
Amherst, MA 01002
Waitlist for new clients
Life can present difficult feelings and experiences that become overwhelming. Therapy can be a way to manage these complicated feelings of sadness, anger, anxiety or just a general feeling of “stuckness”. I believe that everyone has the ability to unlock their potential and move forward.
Life can present difficult feelings and experiences that become overwhelming. Therapy can be a way to manage these complicated feelings of sadness, anger, anxiety or just a general feeling of “stuckness”. I believe that everyone has the ability to unlock their potential and move forward.
At your first appointment, we talk about what's bringing you for therapy now; my approach is strength-based and collaborative. While offering support and guidance, I take time to build a safe place where you can gain understanding and develop skills to improve your life. My practice welcomes adolescents, college students and parents; I enjoy working with individuals and couples. With increased perspective and awareness about your choices, the opportunity for change unfolds.
At your first appointment, we talk about what's bringing you for therapy now; my approach is strength-based and collaborative. While offering support and guidance, I take time to build a safe place where you can gain understanding and develop skills to improve your life. My practice welcomes adolescents, college students and parents; I enjoy working with individuals and couples. With increased perspective and awareness about your choices, the opportunity for change unfolds.
We are all so complicated. We love hard, we inflict hurt to our selves and others. But there is still so much beauty that lives within us all. I want to be able help you create the self-love, self-worth, self-compassionate and self- trust in you again. I have over 10 years in working with individuals that have experienced traumas in intimate partner and family violence. I am committed to supporting individuals to find that surviving self-love that lives within them, especially when feelings of brokenness and hopelessness is the only vision. We will develop communication with love and kindness for true change in our relationships.
We are all so complicated. We love hard, we inflict hurt to our selves and others. But there is still so much beauty that lives within us all. I want to be able help you create the self-love, self-worth, self-compassionate and self- trust in you again. I have over 10 years in working with individuals that have experienced traumas in intimate partner and family violence. I am committed to supporting individuals to find that surviving self-love that lives within them, especially when feelings of brokenness and hopelessness is the only vision. We will develop communication with love and kindness for true change in our relationships.
I am a clinical psychologist in practice in Amherst since 1989. I work with a wide range of people, from college aged through older adults, and with a wide range of problems and issues including: negative or vulnerable self-image, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, losses, and life transitions. I strive to provide a warm, safe, collaborative, open atmosphere in which to help people find relief from suffering and enhanced vital engagement in living. I believe that pathways to growth and healing often involve increasing awareness of underlying self-defeating patterns in the ways people experience and live their lives.
I am a clinical psychologist in practice in Amherst since 1989. I work with a wide range of people, from college aged through older adults, and with a wide range of problems and issues including: negative or vulnerable self-image, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, losses, and life transitions. I strive to provide a warm, safe, collaborative, open atmosphere in which to help people find relief from suffering and enhanced vital engagement in living. I believe that pathways to growth and healing often involve increasing awareness of underlying self-defeating patterns in the ways people experience and live their lives.
