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Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Valarie Smith is a licensed clinical social worker in Decatur with 14 years in practice. She works with adults and older adults who want to understand themselves and their relationships more deeply, notice the patterns that keep repeating in their lives, and handle change with more ease. She helps with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, self-esteem, stress, substance use and LGBTQ+ concerns. Her work explores how past experiences and unconscious thoughts shape the present, using psychodynamic, relational, attachment-based, CBT and DBT approaches tailored to each person. She describes herself as kind, genuine and a little offbeat. She sees clients in person in Decatur and online.

Counselor, MA, APC, NCC

Katherine Yates is an Associate Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor in Roswell. She works with children, teens, adults, couples and families on anxiety, stress, perfectionism, OCD, low mood, body image and eating concerns, trauma, life transitions, faith questions and relationship problems. Her approach is holistic, attending to body, mind and spirit, and blends skills-based tools with space to process one's story. She is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, a trauma-focused method for reprocessing painful memories, and also uses CBT, DBT, attachment-based and Christian counseling. She offers in-person sessions in Roswell and telehealth across Georgia.

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.

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.

Counselor, MEd, LCPC, LPC, C-IAYT

Tessa Mandala is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Phoenix with 11 years in practice. She is also licensed as an LCPC in Illinois, holds a Florida telehealth license, and is a certified yoga therapist. She has worked in substance use treatment from inpatient to outpatient care, and she helps adults with addiction and recovery, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions and stress, with a welcoming approach for LGBTQIA+ clients. Seeing mind, body and spirit as connected, she blends talk therapy with mindfulness, somatic practice and bodywork, along with CBT, attachment-based work and motivational interviewing. She sees clients in person in Phoenix and online, and offers a free 15-minute consultation.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW

Ryan Roels is a licensed master social worker in Scottsdale who works with preteens, teens, adults and families. Many of his clients spent years holding everything together, often growing up where showing emotion did not feel safe, and now struggle with self-doubt, exhaustion, feeling flooded in close relationships, or old wounds that keep resurfacing. He also helps with anxiety, depression, identity questions, life transitions, family conflict and substance use. His work is warm and reflective, drawing on psychodynamic, relational, family systems, compassion-focused, CBT and DBT methods to help clients understand their history and respond to pain in new ways. He sees clients in person in Scottsdale and online.