Therapists in Riverside, Cambridge, MA

Welcome! Throughout my clinical experience, I have treated a wide range of mental health issues with an emphasis on anxiety and phobias, as well as OCD, perfectionism, and body-focused repetitive behaviors. My background includes addressing adult ADHD/executive functioning difficulties, mood disorders, stress, grief, and relationship impasses. I often work with those whose anxiety or life experiences have led to avoidance as a psychological coping tool. I focus on adults across the lifespan, college students, and couples. I look to collaborate with my clients and seek purposeful, effective approaches to personal challenges.

Psychotherapy helps people face what is difficult in their lives. Beyond providing relief and support, growth in therapy leads to increased agency and purpose, more satisfying relationships, and to greater spontaneity and flexibility. I see people with complex histories who present with anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. I am engaged, committed and practical in my approach to helping people. I continue to train in experiential dynamic therapy models, which help clients access emotions and outgrow longstanding and broken coping strategies. These models include AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), IFS (Internal Family Systems), EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples) and ISTDP (Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy).

As a classically trained psychologist, I view my work as a blend of art and science. My patients are generally competent, loving people who are struggling with painful issues related to relationships, sexuality, life changes, work and other stressful situations. Many also suffer from situational or long-standing feelings of depression, anxiety or inadequacy. All are motivated to make meaningful change. My style is open, relational, and collaborative, and my approach is based on decades of experience and a fundamental understanding that no two people are alike. Therapy focuses on both on symptom relief and personal growth.

I provide psychotherapy to individuals and couples, creating a warm and welcoming environment for the work we do together. I provide guidance and support as my clients explore their current struggles or history. My areas of specialty include working with people coping with depression, anxiety, family or marital conflict, postpartum depression and infertility.

At this time, I am not accepting new clients because my schedule is full. Please check back periodically to see if this message has changed. Thank you and be well. I offer support and guidance to empower the individual to overcome obstacles to success and improve quality of life by becoming more actively involved in pursuing life goals and making best choices even in the face of adversity.

If you are navigating life, with continuous roadblocks, resulting from depression, anxiety, fear, anger and/or trauma, you are not alone. If you have relationship, marital, or premarital issues, you came to the right place. My specialty is working with men who are on a path to have great relationships and overcoming adjustments in life that come with every stage and decision we make. Clients come to me to learn how to have healthy relationships, strong communication, great listening skill's and more intimacy in their lives.

If you are interested in becoming a new patient, please contact me via the contact form on my website: jenniferstrong.com/contact. I provide psychotherapy for individual adults and have experience treating multiple issues, including anxiety, depression, eating/body image concerns, life transitions, and the effects of traumatic experiences. I also have a particular interest in working with those who have suffered from racism, homophobia, disability discrimination and other forms of oppression. My practice is sex-positive and kink- and poly-friendly.

Therapy can be a space for growth, understanding, and fulfillment. People seek therapy for many different reasons. You may be looking for support navigating a big life change, making sense of traumatic experiences or memories, working through anxiety or fears that are impacting your life, or figuring out what exactly is holding you back from feeling like your best self. Whatever you are hoping to achieve with therapy, you are not alone.

Kat Thompson is a Licensed Certified Social Worker with experience helping all age ranges address challenges and adapt using healthy coping strategies. She is passionate, empathetic, and creative in finding individualized treatments for her clients. Kat specializes in anxiety, depression, eating disorders, PTSD, trauma, and major life transitions.

Isabella Odams is a Master’s Level Mental Health Therapist in Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Regis College, and went on to get her Master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from William James College. ​ Isabella has worked with children, adolescents, and adults in various community mental health settings, including outpatient and residential behavioral health locations. She has extensive experience working with anxiety disorders, depression, everyday stressors, and relationship conflicts. She specializes in working with young adults and couples.

With the foundation of a trusting therapeutic relationship, I offer a safe space for adults and older adolescents to self-reflect and grow through their personal development. I use a curious, collaborative, and compassionate approach so my clients can feel seen, heard, and even challenged at times. Growth and change can happen when we explore our vulnerabilities, feelings, and struggles in a safe and supportive environment. I aspire for each of my clients to live a grounded, fulfilling, and optimal life.

Therapy clients may be seeking insight, new ways of coping, relief from suffering, or to be less alone with life’s challenges. I draw flexibly from many approaches, and ultimately, I believe it is the relationship that heals, as well as learning to be a kind friend to oneself. I believe that good mental health means feeling you have choices and making them consciously. Many of my clients strive to be more fully themselves. My practice has a focus on the BGLTQ+ Community, especially trans, gender diverse, and polyamorous people, and I also tend to see a lot of geeky and neurodivergent people.

My purpose is to help individuals and groups become empowered to emerge as better versions of themselves, who are better able to reach their own goals. Healing and growth takes place in a safe and secure environment where we can cooperatively seek to understand your challenges and who you are in relation to them. I work well with adolescents, emerging adults, and established yet struggling adults.

I specialize in treating children, teens, and adults with OCD, anxiety, or related issues, and have nearly 30 years of experience. My goal is to help individuals who are struggling to build lives that they love - and it is an honor to journey with them to grow and thrive. My approach includes CBT (Exposure and Response Prevention; ERP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). I provide individual and group therapy, consultation, assessment, and transition services for youth moving across levels of care. I also supervise and train for other clinicians, nationally and internationally.

People seek psychotherapy for many reasons. You may want to address symptoms of depression, anxiety, or low self-esteem, feelings of distress, vulnerability, or isolation. You may be searching for greater meaning, connection, authenticity, and empowerment in your daily interactions. Therapy can help reveal and change patterns that inhibit or undermine living the life you desire. In a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship, we can create conditions for growth, challenge ways of seeing, process painful experiences, and increase your awareness and acceptance of different parts of yourself.

Are you experiencing overwhelming change and looking for a place to sort through it? Do you feel trapped by your anxious thoughts? You may seek to deepen insight, heal, or free yourself from a near constant state of distress. Perhaps you are experiencing anxiety, a major life transition, or difficulties in your relationships. You may also have lived with trauma or chronic illness and wish to have a space that's safe and free of judgment in order to process your experiences and move forward with a renewed sense of purpose and understanding.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 25 years of experience helping clients to overcome challenges, cultivate self-awareness, deepen relationships, and live with a greater sense of personal freedom. My approach, grounded in attachment theory and psychoanalytic principles, assumes that our way of experiencing ourselves, others, and the world around us is shaped by our earliest relationships. In the context of an empathic, nonjudgmental relationship, I help my clients explore their ways of moving through the world, examining habitual patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior to open up new possibilities and choices.

Do you feel overwhelmed when facing the obstacles in your life? Have you tried to find ways to help yourself, but no matter what you do, things are not getting better? Therapy can help you find new ways of dealing with the challenges in life that have become too much to handle alone. Every person has a reservoir of strength inside. Through compassionate, supportive therapy, you can connect to your strengths to develop new ways of dealing with problems and difficult feelings, relationships, and transitions.

As a psychodynamic psychologist, I approach the therapeutic relationship as a powerful medium for exploring and reworking longstanding problematic relationship patterns. At the same time, I am committed to working flexibly and pragmatically, and frequently draw upon cognitive-behavioral, cultural, trauma-informed and neuropsychological perspectives relevant for individual clients. I am committed to addressing issues of class, race, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity which may be relevant for my clients.