Robert Bonazoli, Psychotherapist in Boston, 02116

Robert Bonazoli, LICSW

Profession(s):
Psychotherapy, Marriage & Family Therapy
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Primary License:
LICSW - 115300

My Approach to Helping

For nearly 20 years I have worked with adults, children, families, and groups facing challenges, grappling with suffering, and aspiring toward greater understanding, fulfillment, and connection in their lives and relationships. In that time I have gained extensive experience dealing with issues of depression, anxiety, addiction, trauma, relationship conflict, chronic mental illness, grief & loss, and spirituality.

I use an integrative approach to psychotherapy, combining insight and skills-based frameworks. I help my clients understand how their past experiences and relationships shaped and influence who they are now and how they experience the world (insight), and I help them develop tools for addressing current life situations and for putting that insight to work in moving their lives in the direction they want (skills-based). This approach helps clients link the past which formed them, the present they are living in, and the future they wish to experience.

Psychotherapy is not a mechanical endeavor, and what is effective and useful for one person may look quite different than what is helpful to another. I work collaboratively with each individual to identify and integrate the most useful approach or combination of approaches for them and their present situation.

Real change and recovery from suffering can occur through psychotherapy, although it is often difficult work. Undertaking and realizing the benefits of such work takes courage, commitment, humor, and compassion on the part of both the therapist and client.

I encourage you to contact me to schedule an appointment if you believe such an approach and partnership can be helpful to you.

More Info About My Practice

Selected Training:
-Master of Social Work (MSW) from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work
-Postgraduate Psychotherapy Fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
-Postgraduate Psychotherapy Fellowship at The Boston Institute for Psychotherapy
-Practicum in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at UMASS Medical School, Worcester
-Ongoing Internal Family Systems (IFS) training through the Center for Self Leadership

Professional Memberships:
-American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work
-Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology
-National Association of Social Workers
-New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation
-Northeastern Society of Group Psychotherapy