Find someone who gets you.

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.

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.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LLP, LPC

Vani Rao is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Novi, Michigan, who also holds a limited licensed psychologist credential. She focuses on trauma and works with teens and adults on anxiety, depression, stress and the relationships they have with themselves and others. Her practice also covers OCD, addiction and substance use, bipolar disorder and postpartum concerns. Trained in EMDR, she works on painful memories and the negative beliefs that grew from them, and she also uses CBT, DBT, internal family systems, motivational interviewing and mindfulness-based methods. Goals are set together with each client. She offers sessions in person in Novi and by video, plus a free 15-minute consultation.

Counselor, LPC

Reginald Terry is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Detroit with 18 years in practice. He works with adults who are worn down by problems that have piled up over time, including trauma, anger, substance use and gambling, strained relationships, stress at work and low self-esteem. He also supports clients dealing with racial identity and with being mistreated for who they are. Clients often come to him wanting both direction and accountability: a clear plan, better control of their emotions and a fuller understanding of themselves. He uses CBT, DBT, EMDR and motivational interviewing, and he sees clients in person in Detroit and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW

Kristin Koliha is a licensed independent clinical social worker based in Redmond, licensed in Washington, Ohio and Oregon. She specializes in adults with ADHD and those who suspect they have it, including parents who recognize themselves after a child's diagnosis. Many of her clients have long found focus, organization, motivation or managing emotions hard, and also face anxiety, depression or life transitions. She offers comprehensive ADHD assessments as well as therapy to help clients understand how their brain works. Her approach is strengths-based and neuro-affirming, building realistic strategies that fit the person and avoid burnout, using CBT, ACT, mindfulness and coaching. She works with adults and older adults online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW

Kathleen Sprole is a licensed independent clinical social worker in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, with 18 years in practice. She works with teens, adults and older adults on trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions and relationship concerns, and she also treats eating disorders and body image, OCD, substance use, bipolar disorder, self-harm and borderline personality, welcoming LGBTQ+ clients. She believes people have inner strengths they can lose sight of, and her aim is to help clients reconnect with them, develop practical new strategies and become more resilient. She draws on ACT, DBT, accelerated resolution therapy, Adlerian, attachment-based, compassion-focused and gestalt approaches. She sees clients in person and online.

Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MA, ATR-BC, LPCC

Rafael Cohen is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and board-certified art therapist in St. Paul, Minnesota, with 19 years in practice. He works with adults and older adults facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties and life transitions, as well as bipolar disorder, chronic illness and cancer, and he welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Some of the people he sees feel empty even after reaching what they wanted, while others keep undermining their own goals. His work is psychoanalytic and psychodynamic, attending to the whole person rather than a single symptom or diagnosis, and it is also shaped by existential and feminist thinking. He sees clients in person in St. Paul and online.

Family Therapist, MA, LMFT

Julie Richter, a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years in practice, sees clients in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Trained at the University of Minnesota and the Adler Graduate School, she is also a special education teacher and a parent and adult educator. She works with families of young children, teens, adults, couples and older adults who are struggling to manage day to day or want a more balanced life. Her practice includes parenting, relationships, depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, OCD, substance use, eating disorders and postpartum concerns. She combines approaches such as CBT, Adlerian, Gottman, emotionally focused and family systems therapy, and sees clients in person and online.