Therapists Beginning With F in Maine

Life these days can be complicated, confusing and challenging. As a psychotherapist, my goal is to offer an open, non-judgmental and safe therapeutic relationship to help foster personal growth and change. I am fluent in a variety of physical and psychological conditions, including fibromyalgia, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, phobias, relationship issues, grief/loss, bipolar disorder, insomnia, and many others. I am also a master clinician in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). For more information on ART, please visit my website via the link on the left.

There are no changes in life until there is an action. If you are considering happiness and joy for your life and are contemplating taking the leap into action for a change, I am at your service. If I can be of service to you on this critically important journey of self love, I am honored and grateful.

I love my work and am in awe of the individuals I work with who courageously address the hurts in their life that prevent them from living more fully. It maybe a crisis in a relationship, ongoing anxiety or depression, a painful trauma, or an inner sense that things are just not right. Together we pay attention to these feelings, enabling them to be talked about, more fully experienced and then understood. This transformative process can restore joy and resilience in life, as well as improve the capacity to care about oneself and be in relationship with others.

Sometimes it helps to shift our perspective, even slightly. What we have been doing is comfortable, but not necessarily effective. People are full of life and strength and vigor; and they are the primary architects for their happiness. Things that happen to us that aren't our fault, and we still have to resolve them anyway. Counseling can help make the perspective shift, and uncover the life, strength and vigor in all of us. I exclusively provide comprehensive DBT or DBT Complex Trauma models. I am a DBT - Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician.

Welcome. You’ve come to the right place. Entering recovery from addiction can feel like you've landed on a strange new planet. It's normal to feel alone, confused and vulnerable, not having a clue where to start. Forging your unique path to wellness is the journey that lies ahead. You have the ability to heal yourself, but you are not meant to do it alone. As a professional counselor with lived experience in long-term recovery, I can help to guide you forward.

Welcome! My practice is oriented towards serving persons who need support for coping with depression, anxiety, complex trauma, grief, and substance/alcohol use. My approach is concerned with creating a safe space in which you may share your current experience and history, and explore solutions, build skills, and engage in healing modalities. My clinical interests include working with adults, couples, and especially persons in the LGBTQIA+ community. I utilize a trauma responsive, strengths based, solution focused approach. I offer frameworks of compassionate self-understanding, and help people find meaning and purpose in living.

I specialize in working with teenagers, young adults, adults, and families, drawing from my extensive experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings. My passion lies in supporting individuals dealing with a range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief, family conflict, and navigating life's transitions. I also thrive on assisting those striving to achieve both short and long-term goals, while enhancing their overall well-being and managing stress levels.

I believe that "diagnosis and treatment" is too narrow a model to understand the depth and richness of our human experience, heal the wounds of our past history, and allow us to embody our joy and our fullness. I invite you to not only remove existing symptoms and change unhealthy behavior patterns, but to create a life of love, authenticity, and celebration.

I focus on working primarily with couples and individual adults who are dealing with trauma histories, identity/cultural issues, depression and/or anxiety. I can help you excavate your past trauma, your attachment and communication styles in a way that helps you understand them, and how these may be impacting what is going on with you in the present moment, so you can feel more in control of your body, your emotions, your thoughts, and your relationships. I have very limited space for teens also dealing with trauma, anxiety and depression, who can come for in-person services, at my Portsmouth, NH location.

Welcome! If you entrust me to walk with you on your path, I will do so with openness, compassion, honesty & non-judgement and will strive to help you find lightness & buoyancy even when things feel heavy and hard. I am a trauma-informed therapist who aims to show up to my work with wholehearted authenticity. My ideal clients are courageous and curious to know themselves more deeply, motivated to take steps towards identifying what is helping/hindering them in living the life they want, and are open-minded to learning and practicing new ways (dusting off old ones too!) of tending to their relationships with self and others.

I have openings for Couples Therapy/ Family Therapy/Ind adults at this time. Life can be challenging these days. Are you feeling stressed or overwhelmed? Are you in what feels like an impossible situation, job, relationship, or having difficulties with your child/ren? Are you struggling with anxiety or depression? Any of these issues can leave you feeling alone, at a loss, and even stuck. Therapy can be a positive way to begin your journey of figuring out how you got to where you are, how to manage the symptoms that are making your life unbearable, and what choices you want to make to change your life’s trajectory.

I strongly believe in joining my clients based on where they are in life’s journey, acknowledging the intricate narratives that shape each individual. Through close collaboration, I navigate alongside my clients to unearth pragmatic resolutions while affirming the distinctiveness of their personal narratives. I recognize that every challenge is an opportunity for personal evolution. I sincerely believe that at any given moment, individuals are doing the best they can and aspiring for continual improvement.

It’s important to feel comfortable coming to therapy just as you are. Many of us experience major life changes, challenging relationships, grief, guilt, anxiety, or trauma reactions, that cause us to feel self-doubt, to feel disconnected from our needs and bodies, and to even minimize our own experiences. My approach, which is intersectional, developmentally focused, and trauma-informed, helps you tap into the knowledge your body and emotions have for you, while developing skills so these feelings don’t overwhelm and take center stage. I have current openings for EMDR, new parents with perinatal mood disorders, and LGBTQ folks.

Hello and Welcome. I bring to my practice a curiosity about who you are including what gives your life meaning and what are your sources of pain. I see myself as a partner in your journey towards wellness and living the life that you want to lead. As a therapist I particularly enjoy working with people who are contemplating behavior change, considering courageous life transitions, and supporting my clients in cultivating healthy relationships and setting compassionate boundaries.

My approach to therapy is person-centered, interactive, and creative. I am dedicated to helping individuals work through whatever brings them to see me -- whether it be depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship and interpersonal issues, career changes, life transitions, spiritual matters, or other challenges. I enjoy collaborating with clients to help them heal, reach goals, realize dreams, and ultimately find more meaning and joy in their lives.

My experience spans across individuals, families, and groups within a wide array of therapeutic settings over the past decade. I use an integrative approach that supports not only my client’s willingness, but also their motivation to change. Concerns with life transitions, relationships, anxiety, depression, trauma, or grief can all be shared freely in this space. Additionally, my work and passion in the counseling field concentrates on sex therapy. Through the promotion of sex positivity and sex affirmation, those I work with can safely discover, explore, and examine their sexuality.

If white knuckling, self shaming, and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps worked, you’d be “cured” a billion times over. It doesn’t. At least not for me or people whose brains are different. Our minds race and it feels impossible to turn off and rest. Sometimes we use substances or other behaviors in a harmful way just to get through the day. There’s more to life out there. A more peaceful and meaningful life is possible. We need to go deeper and get to the root of things. I’ll go with you.

After 35 years practicing as a clinical psychologist I have come to understand that effective treatment must be determined specifically for each client and applied in a respectful and cooperative manner. Treatment choices are made based on the uniqueness of the individual, his or her goals, and current life circumstances. They may include behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, in-depth therapy, or couples and family therapy. One treatment modality is not appropriate for all.