Find someone who gets you.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW

Wendy Yajna Brown is a licensed master social worker in Marietta with six years in practice. She works with adults, including older adults, who are dealing with depression, grief, anxiety, trauma and exhaustion, often after long stretches of stress, loss, displacement or illness. Many of her clients live with chronic pain or chronic illness, and some are carrying the weight of cultural upheaval. Her therapy is practical and gentle, with close attention to the mind and body, and may include behavioral coaching, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation and body awareness practices. She draws on ACT, CBT, DBT, compassion-focused work, IFS and somatic methods, and offers sessions in person in Marietta and online.

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.

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

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.

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.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC

Jennifer Szabo is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Gilbert who works with teens, adults and older adults. She has particular training in OCD and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and she helps clients with intrusive or obsessional thoughts, postpartum and parenting challenges, anxiety, depression and life transitions. She is also comfortable working with bipolar disorder and borderline personality. Her integrative approach draws on exposure and response prevention, DBT, CBT, ACT and motivational interviewing, offered in a nonjudgmental setting where clients can explore the roots of their struggles and build healthy coping skills. She offers a free 15-minute phone consultation and sees clients online.

Psychologist, MA, PhD

Dr. Morgan Bartholomew is a licensed psychologist based in Palo Alto with three years in practice, part of a group practice of psychologists. She works with adults and older adults facing trauma, ongoing stress, anxiety, depression and chronic illness, and also helps with grief, OCD, life transitions and relationship concerns. She especially enjoys supporting LGBTQIA+ clients, and her work is rooted in cultural humility. Her approach is compassionate and evidence-based, using CBT, cognitive processing therapy, prolonged exposure, ACT, DBT, IFS and mindfulness-based methods to help clients feel more grounded and live by their values. A free 15-minute intake call is available. She sees clients online.