Jennifer Guiry, Clinical Social Worker in Cambridge, 02140

Jenn Guiry, LICSW

Profession(s):
Clinical Social Work
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Primary License:
LICSW

My Approach to Helping

Whether we are struggling with day-to-day stress, depression, mood disorders, or addictions, we all share a common journey toward healing. I have a passionate desire to walk beside my clients and help illuminate that dark path on the journey toward wellness.

I've wanted to work with people for as long as I can remember, and I am the most fulfilled when I am engaged with them, bearing witness to their life situations, emotions, and dreams.

What does this mean for my clients? Sessions typically feel like normal, relaxed conversations, without pressure or judgment. While listening to you tell your story, I will also "listen for meaning" so that I can help you focus on what is going right in your life.
This is known as a "strength-based approach." It also means that I promise to be real with you. I am not one to sugar coat feedback about clients' behaviors, preferring instead, to "play it straight" and "tell it like it is."

More Info About My Practice

Currently I accept the following health plans:
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Any insurance plans that use United Behavioral Health (UBH) as the MH provider including:
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
United Health Care
GIC-Unicare (Massachusetts State and municipal employees? insurance plan)
Some Tufts health plans-Client must call MH number on back of card to verify UBH as coverage.
Medicare
If you do not have any of these plans, please check with your current insurance company and ask about "out of network" mental health benefits.
Coming soon I will be accepting: Neighborhood Health Plan, Fallon and Boston Medical Center (BMC Healthnet.) These plans MH benefits are covered by Beacon Health Strategies.

I also run the following groups:
DBT unplugged
$30 - $50 per session
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral treatment for complex, difficult-to-treat mental health disorders including--but in no way limited to--behavioral disorders that involve emotional dysregulation, chronically suicidal individuals, depression, eating disorders, individuals with substance dependence disorders, and multi-disordered clients. DBT combines basic strategies of behavior therapy with Eastern mindfulness practices. This group combines principles of DBT, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and some basic 12 step principles for changing ones behaviors.

Women's DBT- Beginning Saturday, January, 7, 2011 running through Saturday, April, 28, 2011.
Adolescent Girls DBT- Beginning Saturday, January, 7, 2011 running through Saturday, April, 28, 2011.

Men's DBT group also available based on expressed interest.

Coming January 2012
Winter Wellness Group
$30 - $50 per session

Wellness and skill building group geared towards educating participants about depression, how the weather, seasons and even the phases of the moons can significantly impact ones mood. Learn new coping skills, make connections and receive support from others who struggle to make it through the long cold winters in the Northeast.

Call or email to reserve a spot.

Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With

As a clinician, I have provided diagnostic assessments, crisis intervention, and individual, family, and group therapy to a range of ages from latency to adulthood. Additionally, I have co-led DBT skills groups as well as anger management, coping skills, and recovery and relapse prevention groups.