Therapists in Massachusetts

Family Therapist, MEd, MA, LMFT

Michelle Tirella Ventura is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Newton with eight years in practice. She works with adults, older adults and couples, including clients on the autism spectrum, on anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, ADHD, life transitions and relationship concerns. With couples she uses Emotion Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method to help partners communicate better and work through conflict, infidelity, parenting stress and change. Her style is warm and transparent, and depending on the client she may add mindfulness and expressive arts to more traditional methods. She welcomes people of all cultures and identities, and co-hosts a podcast called Licensed to Listen. She sees clients in person in Newton and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Casey Jane Wawro is a licensed clinical social worker in Brookline who specializes in working with athletes. Her clients range from college competitors and professional players to those facing retirement or other identity shifts beyond their sport. She helps adults with anxiety, disordered eating and body image, trauma, injury, burnout and the pressure of high expectations, especially people who have rarely been encouraged to be vulnerable or talk about mental health. Working from a psychodynamic, relational and trauma-informed lens, she helps clients build a steadier sense of self beyond their athletic role. As a clinician of color, she offers culturally informed care. She sees clients in person in Brookline and online.

Counselor, LMHC

Allison Reese is a licensed mental health counselor in Wellesley who works with young children, teens, adults and families. A former early intervention clinician, she has particular experience with young children and their parents, and she also helps with anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief, life transitions, postpartum concerns and feeling stuck as a parent, partner or individual. She offers an affirming space for LGBTQIA+ clients, informed by her own lived experience. Her approach is warm and collaborative, blending CBT, trauma-informed care, Internal Family Systems, expressive arts and play therapy, with room for humor and creativity. She sees clients in person in Wellesley and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, MSW

Andrea Cooke is a licensed independent clinical social worker based in Boston, licensed in Massachusetts and Illinois, with more than 15 years of experience. She works with teens, adults, couples and families on anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, substance use, stress and life transitions, and also supports people who simply want a fuller life. She aims to make therapy feel real and even something to look forward to, addressing worries about the process early and focusing on lasting growth. Her methods include ACT, CBT, DBT, emotionally focused and family systems therapy, mindfulness and motivational interviewing. She works with clients online.

Psychologist, PsyD

Dr. Julion Marrinan is a licensed psychologist in Cambridge with nine years in practice, focused on clinical health psychology. He works mainly with adults, and also teens, who are struggling with anxiety, depression or substance use, and who want to build a life that reflects what matters to them. He is deeply trained in ACT and motivational enhancement, and also uses CBT, exposure and response prevention, and compassion-focused methods. His background includes an internship in a partial hospitalization program serving adolescents and adults, and he is part of clinical efforts addressing the opioid crisis in southeastern Massachusetts. He sees clients online.

Counselor, MA, LMHC

Mary Kriger is a licensed mental health counselor based in Quincy with 16 years in practice. She works with adults who are already self-aware and want to go deeper, including people making sense of a spiritual awakening or a plant medicine journey, or exploring practices like tarot that they fear other therapists might dismiss. She also supports healers and helpers who feel burned out, along with clients facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, low self-esteem and LGBTQ+ issues. Her integrative, compassionate approach draws on Internal Family Systems, relational, humanistic and transpersonal therapy, with attention to how larger systems affect each person, and she offers ketamine-assisted work. She sees clients online.

Psychologist, PsyD, LMHC, LMFT

Dr. Tim Ridge is a licensed psychologist in Wellesley, also holding LMHC and LMFT credentials, with 23 years in practice. He works with teens, adults, older adults and couples dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression, shame, grief, low confidence and harsh self-criticism, as well as relationship, family and substance use concerns. He sees much of everyday anxiety and stress as rooted in past experiences that still drain people emotionally. His approach is collaborative and nonjudgmental, using EMDR, Brainspotting, hypnotherapy and attachment-based, trauma-focused work alongside talk therapy. Clients describe him as empathic, genuine and quick to laugh. He sees clients in person in Wellesley and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MFA, LICSW

Sarah Stone is a licensed independent clinical social worker in Boston. She often works with adults who look capable from the outside yet feel anxious, unsure of themselves or worn down by perfectionism and the habit of keeping others happy. Her focus areas include anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, people-pleasing, OCD and substance use, and she also works with women's issues, family conflict and writers and other creative artists. Her style is integrative and experiential, drawing on Internal Family Systems, somatic work, Deep Brain Reorienting and attachment-based, psychodynamic methods, with attention to feelings and body responses in the moment. She sees adults and older adults in person in Boston and online.