Dissociative Disorders (DID) Therapists in Somerville, MA
I hold the understanding that all people have within themselves the wisdom and strength necessary to heal, and I believe that entering into a supportive and respectful therapeutic relationship can help these strengths and awarenesses emerge, develop, and grow. I enjoy working with people who desire a more peaceful and enjoyable life.
I hold the understanding that all people have within themselves the wisdom and strength necessary to heal, and I believe that entering into a supportive and respectful therapeutic relationship can help these strengths and awarenesses emerge, develop, and grow. I enjoy working with people who desire a more peaceful and enjoyable life.
Jordan Moore
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Somerville, MA 02143
I am not your typical therapist. My greatest passion throughout my career has always been working with people who are truly driven to change their lives. With a deep therapeutic connection, the right tools, and the motivation to increase the quality of your life, real change can and does happen. I provide an open, safe, and completely non-judgemental space to work on anything and everything. There is truly no limit to what we can tackle. I will not turn you away for having an intense or very hard lived experience. I specialize in EMDR, DBT, and somatic experiencing work. I provide highly customized treatment to every client.
I am not your typical therapist. My greatest passion throughout my career has always been working with people who are truly driven to change their lives. With a deep therapeutic connection, the right tools, and the motivation to increase the quality of your life, real change can and does happen. I provide an open, safe, and completely non-judgemental space to work on anything and everything. There is truly no limit to what we can tackle. I will not turn you away for having an intense or very hard lived experience. I specialize in EMDR, DBT, and somatic experiencing work. I provide highly customized treatment to every client.
Kim Bowles
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
Somerville, MA 02143 (Online Only)
Because you are a unique individual, and it is important that the process resonates with you, we will work collaboratively to choose which path to take and which therapy techniques we use. We can discover how to draw on your strengths so you can live life to the fullest. Some of the techniques I offer are ACT, CBT, and Narrative Exposure Therapy. And while I take your mental health very seriously, experience has taught me that bringing a sense of humor to the sessions can give a lift and add perspective. I'd be happy to speak with you so we can get a better sense of whether we might be a good match.
Because you are a unique individual, and it is important that the process resonates with you, we will work collaboratively to choose which path to take and which therapy techniques we use. We can discover how to draw on your strengths so you can live life to the fullest. Some of the techniques I offer are ACT, CBT, and Narrative Exposure Therapy. And while I take your mental health very seriously, experience has taught me that bringing a sense of humor to the sessions can give a lift and add perspective. I'd be happy to speak with you so we can get a better sense of whether we might be a good match.
Life can be challenging, but you don't have to navigate it alone. I'm Erik Gans, and I'm here to support you on your journey. I actually believe therapy can be simple. Just come in, share your thoughts, and commit to 50 minutes once a week, and together we can create lasting changes. While there's room for deeper exploration, we don’t have to push it. With over 15 years of experience, I specialize in helping individuals with trauma, phobias, depression, and anxiety. This is the perfect time to take this step towards a healthier you. I'm excited to connect with you.
Life can be challenging, but you don't have to navigate it alone. I'm Erik Gans, and I'm here to support you on your journey. I actually believe therapy can be simple. Just come in, share your thoughts, and commit to 50 minutes once a week, and together we can create lasting changes. While there's room for deeper exploration, we don’t have to push it. With over 15 years of experience, I specialize in helping individuals with trauma, phobias, depression, and anxiety. This is the perfect time to take this step towards a healthier you. I'm excited to connect with you.
Rachel Ellingson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
Verified Verified
Somerville, MA 02144 (Online Only)
Hi, my name is Rachel, and I’m excited to be providing queer-affirming therapy through Queer Therapy Boston. As a queer and nonbinary neurodivergent fat person, I bring not only clinical experience but also lived experience in these areas. I specialize in working with queer and trans individuals, couples and polycules. I am poly and kink friendly, and have extensive experience working with people who have experienced complex trauma, are exploring their identities, going through life transitions, and just trying to survive under capitalism.
Hi, my name is Rachel, and I’m excited to be providing queer-affirming therapy through Queer Therapy Boston. As a queer and nonbinary neurodivergent fat person, I bring not only clinical experience but also lived experience in these areas. I specialize in working with queer and trans individuals, couples and polycules. I am poly and kink friendly, and have extensive experience working with people who have experienced complex trauma, are exploring their identities, going through life transitions, and just trying to survive under capitalism.
Esmé Blackburn
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Somerville, MA 02144 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
It takes a lot of courage to enter into therapy as it means acknowledging that something isn't working in your life. Everyone who comes into therapy is a unique individual whose problems are different eventhough they may fall under the same category,e.g."depressed." Sometimes people enter into therapy with specific problems while for others there is a need to understand old, negative patterns of behaviors.
It takes a lot of courage to enter into therapy as it means acknowledging that something isn't working in your life. Everyone who comes into therapy is a unique individual whose problems are different eventhough they may fall under the same category,e.g."depressed." Sometimes people enter into therapy with specific problems while for others there is a need to understand old, negative patterns of behaviors.
Have you lost someone close to you, whether through divorce, a breakup, or death, and find your grief taking over your life? Are you questioning your sexual orientation or gender? Are you experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms? You don't have to do it alone. I work collaboratively and compassionately with my clients to help them come to some kind of peace with whatever they're struggling with.
I believe that everyone has a strong inner core that can get eclipsed by traumas both large and small. Together you and I would work to find and reclaim that core.
Have you lost someone close to you, whether through divorce, a breakup, or death, and find your grief taking over your life? Are you questioning your sexual orientation or gender? Are you experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms? You don't have to do it alone. I work collaboratively and compassionately with my clients to help them come to some kind of peace with whatever they're struggling with.
I believe that everyone has a strong inner core that can get eclipsed by traumas both large and small. Together you and I would work to find and reclaim that core.
My ideal client would be someone who is ready and willing to participate in treatment. I am comfortable with an array of different diagnoses and struggles. Their needs would include working towards tangible goals that we are able to breakdown in the treatment setting. They may want to work on self-esteem, depression, anxiety, PTSD symptoms etc. They would want to minimize their symptoms and improve everyday functioning. The goal would ultimately be to no longer need treatment as they have reached their goals.
My ideal client would be someone who is ready and willing to participate in treatment. I am comfortable with an array of different diagnoses and struggles. Their needs would include working towards tangible goals that we are able to breakdown in the treatment setting. They may want to work on self-esteem, depression, anxiety, PTSD symptoms etc. They would want to minimize their symptoms and improve everyday functioning. The goal would ultimately be to no longer need treatment as they have reached their goals.
As a trauma specialized clinician and former Program Director at McLean Hospital, I have deep respect for clients' painful struggles as well as for their strength, resilience, and capacity for growth. My approach is fundamentally gentle, compassionate and collaborative. Are you curious about yourself and wish to understand how your past informs present relationships, emotions, and behavior? Join me to build insight and coping strategies, reduce the overwhelming impact of your symptoms and your past, and build a more present, empowered, regulated and satisfying life.
As a trauma specialized clinician and former Program Director at McLean Hospital, I have deep respect for clients' painful struggles as well as for their strength, resilience, and capacity for growth. My approach is fundamentally gentle, compassionate and collaborative. Are you curious about yourself and wish to understand how your past informs present relationships, emotions, and behavior? Join me to build insight and coping strategies, reduce the overwhelming impact of your symptoms and your past, and build a more present, empowered, regulated and satisfying life.
Finding a good therapy match is crucial to bringing about the change that you desire in your life. Working with someone where you feel seen, understood, and challenged in a non-threatening way creates the safety to explore the unknown and grow into your full potential. I am committed to being a supportive, knowledgeable presence within the unique journey chosen by each client.
Finding a good therapy match is crucial to bringing about the change that you desire in your life. Working with someone where you feel seen, understood, and challenged in a non-threatening way creates the safety to explore the unknown and grow into your full potential. I am committed to being a supportive, knowledgeable presence within the unique journey chosen by each client.
Francis Guerriero
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MA, MSW, LICSW
Verified Verified
Somerville, MA 02144
Waitlist for new clients
Effective psychotherapy resembles friendship in the most generative and robust sense of the term. In the context of an increasingly trustworthy connection, I will accompany you into your inner world, where we might encounter together, with increasing complexity, the givens of your unique existence. Companioning you with presence and offerings of perspective, I will bring persistence, patience, and playfulness to our meetings. As your capacity for curiosity and self-compassion organically expand through this dialogue, you'll come to know-and-love yourself and others with an increasing harmony of calmness, clarity, and courage.
Effective psychotherapy resembles friendship in the most generative and robust sense of the term. In the context of an increasingly trustworthy connection, I will accompany you into your inner world, where we might encounter together, with increasing complexity, the givens of your unique existence. Companioning you with presence and offerings of perspective, I will bring persistence, patience, and playfulness to our meetings. As your capacity for curiosity and self-compassion organically expand through this dialogue, you'll come to know-and-love yourself and others with an increasing harmony of calmness, clarity, and courage.
Why are you looking for a therapist? People usually seek therapy because they feel hurt, dissatisfied or unhappy in their lives. And they generally feel most comfortable with a therapist who is relaxed, accepting, non-judgmental on one hand and experienced, knowledgeable and confident on the other. During my twenty seven years of private practice, I have sought to embody these principles.
Why are you looking for a therapist? People usually seek therapy because they feel hurt, dissatisfied or unhappy in their lives. And they generally feel most comfortable with a therapist who is relaxed, accepting, non-judgmental on one hand and experienced, knowledgeable and confident on the other. During my twenty seven years of private practice, I have sought to embody these principles.
I believe therapy is an opportunity to heal, grow, explore and create change. If you are looking for extra support or guidance through a challenging situation and ready to move to a new direction. My style is interactive,utilizing the client's strengths, as we work together towards achieving your goals.
I believe therapy is an opportunity to heal, grow, explore and create change. If you are looking for extra support or guidance through a challenging situation and ready to move to a new direction. My style is interactive,utilizing the client's strengths, as we work together towards achieving your goals.
***Accepting new clients Feb 1, priority to healthcare workers/ first responders and LGBTQ+ individuals*** Unsure about therapy but notice that certain issues in your life keep recurring? Looking for someone to support you as you try to make sense of it all? Maybe your anxiety is starting to interfere with your functioning, or depression feels like it's weighing you down. Maybe there's a trauma in your past that you keep trying to suppress, but it keeps showing up in unexpected ways. Maybe you're used to being in control, but you're coming to terms with the fact that you can't control certain symptoms. I've seen it. I can help.
***Accepting new clients Feb 1, priority to healthcare workers/ first responders and LGBTQ+ individuals*** Unsure about therapy but notice that certain issues in your life keep recurring? Looking for someone to support you as you try to make sense of it all? Maybe your anxiety is starting to interfere with your functioning, or depression feels like it's weighing you down. Maybe there's a trauma in your past that you keep trying to suppress, but it keeps showing up in unexpected ways. Maybe you're used to being in control, but you're coming to terms with the fact that you can't control certain symptoms. I've seen it. I can help.
In my practice I utilize a collaborative, strengths-based model to help clients increase awareness and develop strategies to feel more successful in their lives. My therapeutic approach is overall eclectic, drawing on my training in the evidence-based modalities of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). As an LMHC with a Master's Degree in Art Therapy, I also incorporate expressive therapy when beneficial. In all of my work, I aim to focus my approach depending on the needs of the client I am working with.
In my practice I utilize a collaborative, strengths-based model to help clients increase awareness and develop strategies to feel more successful in their lives. My therapeutic approach is overall eclectic, drawing on my training in the evidence-based modalities of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). As an LMHC with a Master's Degree in Art Therapy, I also incorporate expressive therapy when beneficial. In all of my work, I aim to focus my approach depending on the needs of the client I am working with.
It is often difficult to be one's unique human self. How wonderful you have the courage to propel hope for deep and lasting change for your emotional struggles. Adults in individual and couples therapy deserve to experience loving relationships, and freedom from anxiety, depression, trauma, ADD, and one's idiomatic patterns of difficulty. When your strengths come to the fore, problems loosen their hold, creating the possibilities of you consistently being lovingly in charge of your own life. When your inner life is enriched, you increase possibilities for more abundance. Your private education becomes a great overall investment.
It is often difficult to be one's unique human self. How wonderful you have the courage to propel hope for deep and lasting change for your emotional struggles. Adults in individual and couples therapy deserve to experience loving relationships, and freedom from anxiety, depression, trauma, ADD, and one's idiomatic patterns of difficulty. When your strengths come to the fore, problems loosen their hold, creating the possibilities of you consistently being lovingly in charge of your own life. When your inner life is enriched, you increase possibilities for more abundance. Your private education becomes a great overall investment.
Something that sets me apart from other therapists is my fresh perspective and enthusiasm to help others. I am qualified to work with a wide range of people, but I specialize in working with people who wish to connect with themselves and explore how past experiences in relationship dynamics, sexuality and culture, to name a few, form their identity. My passion for understanding how people think, feel and interact with others led me to the field of psychotherapy.
Something that sets me apart from other therapists is my fresh perspective and enthusiasm to help others. I am qualified to work with a wide range of people, but I specialize in working with people who wish to connect with themselves and explore how past experiences in relationship dynamics, sexuality and culture, to name a few, form their identity. My passion for understanding how people think, feel and interact with others led me to the field of psychotherapy.
I provide psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to adults in a thoughtful, warm, compassionate atmosphere. I treat a spectrum of issues ranging from the commonly practical to the loftily complex, including trauma, depression, anxiety, self-esteem, grief, loss, sexuality, gender, LGBTQ, family, relationships, marriage, professional, identity, existential and spiritual confusion. My therapeutic approach is rooted in psychoanalytic and contemplative theories of human development, function, and dysfunction. I am dedicated to helping my clients grow through their issues in a safe, comfortable, confidential space.
I provide psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to adults in a thoughtful, warm, compassionate atmosphere. I treat a spectrum of issues ranging from the commonly practical to the loftily complex, including trauma, depression, anxiety, self-esteem, grief, loss, sexuality, gender, LGBTQ, family, relationships, marriage, professional, identity, existential and spiritual confusion. My therapeutic approach is rooted in psychoanalytic and contemplative theories of human development, function, and dysfunction. I am dedicated to helping my clients grow through their issues in a safe, comfortable, confidential space.
Andrea Race Douglass
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Somerville, MA 02143
I believe the therapeutic relationship is at the core of all treatment provided as the path to health begins here. Your growth and healing will require energy, commitment, and active participation from you, the client. I work with clients to establish a therapeutic relationship that is honest, straightforward, therapeutically challenging and inspiring, and compassionate. With my support, you will come to deeply understand your personal strengths, compassionately tend to your emotional wounds and learn evidence-based techniques to move toward health.
I believe the therapeutic relationship is at the core of all treatment provided as the path to health begins here. Your growth and healing will require energy, commitment, and active participation from you, the client. I work with clients to establish a therapeutic relationship that is honest, straightforward, therapeutically challenging and inspiring, and compassionate. With my support, you will come to deeply understand your personal strengths, compassionately tend to your emotional wounds and learn evidence-based techniques to move toward health.
Alison M Rhodes
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD, LICSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Somerville, MA 02144
I bring compassion and a non-judgmental active approach to assist you in developing a greater understanding of yourself, overcoming challenges, and living your life to the fullest. I have experience treating a range of presenting concerns, including anxiety, depression, and trauma. I also enjoy working with clients who want to explore their identities, personal histories, and relationship issues.
I bring compassion and a non-judgmental active approach to assist you in developing a greater understanding of yourself, overcoming challenges, and living your life to the fullest. I have experience treating a range of presenting concerns, including anxiety, depression, and trauma. I also enjoy working with clients who want to explore their identities, personal histories, and relationship issues.
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Dissociative Disorders (DID) Therapists
How does therapy for dissociative disorders work?
Dissociation may be triggered by stress or other upsetting circumstances, and therapy can address the traumatic events at the core of an individual’s dissociation. Understanding why a person may dissociate can help the therapist and the individual come up with alternative methods of coping. A person with a dissociative disorder may get stuck on negative thinking, for example, and treatment like Cognitive behavioral therapy is a gold standard for breaking such thinking. And dialectical behavior therapy, for example, can help a person manage their anguish through better emotion regulation.
Which therapies are best for dissociative disorders?
Specific approaches used by professionals include cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, psychodynamic, schema therapies, among others. Cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies are two widely used therapies that can help individuals with painful memories and past traumas. These therapies work to integrate an individual's different identities into one person.
Are there specific medications for dissociation?
There are no specific medications prescribed for dissociative disorders. However, psychosis, depression, anxiety, and/or panic often co-occur in dissociative disorders. A psychiatrist may prescribe medications for any accompanying symptom—which may include antipsychotics like aripiprazole, antidepressants like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or anti-anxiety drugs like benzodiazepines.
How often and how long are therapy sessions?
Like any type of therapy, sessions depend on the individual. Patients may see improvement within 15 to 20 sessions, at an average of 50 minutes per session, others may opt for 20 to 30 sessions over, perhaps, a six-month period. There are still other patients, especially those who have co-occurring conditions like depression and anxiety, who may need to continue sessions for up to 12 to 18 months.