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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.

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.

Psychologist, PsyD

Dr. Tyler Maxson is a licensed psychologist in Mesa who works with teens, adults, couples and groups. Many of his clients are caregivers and high-functioning people who keep everything running for others yet feel unseen, drained or caught in patterns they had not noticed. He also helps with anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, stress, and couple and family concerns. Central to his work is the belief that health starts with connection, so he focuses on strengthening a person's relationship with themselves, with others and with a sense of meaning. He draws on CBT, person-centered, strength-based and positive psychology approaches. He sees clients in person in Mesa and online.