Find a Therapist in Medford, MA

Stephen Medina is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 7 years of experience providing care to children, adolescents, and adults who are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, and mood-related challenges.

I am a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) with 14 years of experience in mental health. I work with adolescents and adults facing challenges such as anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and stress. My clients are often seeking clarity, emotional balance, and tools to cope and thrive. I’m passionate about helping people feel empowered, supported, and equipped to lead more fulfilling lives.

Judenie Dabel is a recent graduate student seeking her LMHC with unique experience and background. She is a Haitian-American born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Her clinical training started on a domestic violence team for an outpatient non-profit. She continued her training at a Black and woman-founded telehealth counseling clinic. She has worked with clients from the ages of 18 to 40. Judenie enjoys working with teens transitioning to college, young adults, and adults. She specializes in working with clients experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, and other related challenges.

I am a master's level counselor with 5 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults navigating anxiety, depression, emotional and behavioral concerns, and autism spectrum-related challenges. I have worked in outpatient and in-home therapy settings, incorporating strong family involvement to promote growth, resilience, and meaningful progress.

As a school psychologist and a family therapist for over 30 years, it has been my pleasure and privlege to work with children and families. My work includes, but is not limited to, helping children with: social anxiety, task and school performance issues, "big feelings" and high level of reactivity, generalized anxiety, grief, fearfulness, sense of inferiority, and trouble with recurring thoughts. Some of these traits fall within various diagnoses (such as ADHD. Anxiety Disorder, Neurodivergence) but your personal concerns about your child are what I am listening for, closely, as each child is a unique individual. My office has space for expressive play therapy with art materials, sand tray, puppets, toys and games. Parents are invited to stay and play with their child for the whole session or a part of a session. I make therapy fun for children so that they will want to participate and become curious about themselves and their behaviors and responses. I help them to discover their own creative inner resources that can be available to them in times of stress. I also counsel and support parenting practices which are helpful for both parent and child. “It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.” (Donald Winicott)

Thomas “Tom” Walters is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (MHC) in Indiana and Massachusetts with over 10 years of experience partnering with adolescents, adults, and couples seeking help with depression, anxiety, substance use, posttraumatic stress (PTSD), trauma, problematic sexual behaviors, and relationship issues.

Enel Joseph is a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) in Massachusetts who assists adolescents, young adults, and older adults with managing mental health challenges and improving their mental wellness. Enel’s ability to communicate fluently in English, Creole, and French, along with his 12 years of service in diverse settings, uniquely positions him to support the psychiatric needs of many different clients. His ideal client is someone who is struggling with a mental health challenge and has not yet come to terms with the condition.

As a psychologist with previous experience working in the financial software industry, I have a unique perspective into balancing professional and personal fulfillment in work and education today. The challenges you are facing may be modern and complex or may be shared throughout human existence. My approach to counseling builds from an exploration and understanding of your personal values and strengths and helps to guide your growth using scientifically validated techniques. With respectful collaboration I hope to contribute towards your healing and flourishing. Understanding gender roles and the effects of masculinity expectations in the world is one of my areas of concentration and may be a helpful framework for understanding your concerns. For men and women recovering from the long-term effects of trauma, I offer expertise that is patient and well-informed to achieve lasting life improvements. My practice is informed by my Unitarian Universalist principles that value acceptance and compassion for everyone of any nationality, race, religious faith, gender expression or identification, sexual expression or identification, age, or ability. Contact me for a free video consultation to learn more about how we might work together

My goals for therapy are based on my passion for my work and my intent to help you to find inherent strengths and skills to help you increase self-awareness and to facilitate the process of helping you to help yourself through empathic collaboration and structured, supportive feedback. Often when facing problems we can become overwhelmed and solutions and clarity may feel obscure. Creating a caring safe atmosphere without judgment to facilitate positive changes, the emphasis is on personal value and worth. I'm committed to helping you to feel better and resolve your concerns.

Josalin Scott is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Massachusetts. Her main area of specialty is helping individuals who are coping with depression, anxiety, attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) and attention-deficit (ADD) diagnoses, self-harm, pet loss, family-building concerns, and LGBTQ+ matters. Over the years, Josalin has gained experience working with individuals who are coping with emotional abuse, the deportation of family members, the death of loved ones, and other painful experiences. She also works with individuals who seek support for anger management and stress management.

Hello, I'm Caitlin Thorp, a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor II. My approach to helping is deeply rooted in a commitment to empowering and supporting others on their journey toward personal growth and wellness. I believe that everyone has the inherent capacity to overcome challenges and transform their lives, and my role is to facilitate this process with compassion, respect, and professional expertise.

Most people who find their way to me are not in crisis. They are tired. Tired of the same argument returning. Tired of feeling unseen by the person closest to them. Tired of noticing themselves end up, again, in a version of the same dynamic, no matter who the partner is. Maybe the connection in your relationship feels thinner than it used to, even when nothing dramatic has happened. Maybe you and your partner can barely sit through dinner without one of you shutting down or getting reactive. Maybe you are the one who keeps trying, keeps initiating, keeps holding the relationship together, and you are starting to ask whether you can keep doing it alone. Maybe everything looks fine from the outside, and only you know how lonely it has begun to feel. If you are coming on your own rather than as a couple, you may be sitting with a different version of the same question. Why do I keep ending up in this kind of relationship? Why does my closest person bring out a side of me I do not recognize, or do not like? Why do I want closeness and resist it at the same time? Why is it so hard to be honest about what I actually need? You may have tried therapy before. You may have read the books, listened to the podcasts, learned the communication skills, taken the assessments, made the lists. Some of it probably helped, at least for a while. And still, something underneath has not shifted. I am Dr. Ehsan Adib Shabahang, a doctoral-level therapist and the founder of AtReef Therapy in Cambridge, MA. I provide couples therapy and individual therapy, with a focus on the patterns that repeat in close relationships and within ourselves. My background is in psychology (PhD with a Social Psychology focus) and clinical mental health counseling. I do not work with everyone, and that is intentional. The work I do is best suited to adults who want depth, who can tolerate honest reflection, and who are ready to look at themselves with as much care as they look at their partner. My approach is relationship-centered and reflective. I focus less on quick communication fixes and more on what often gets left unsaid in a relationship: the protective behaviors, the hidden expectations, the longings that have gone underground, the parts of ourselves we have learned to keep out of view. Communication skills matter, and we will use them. But communication is usually not the real problem. The real problem is what each person is protecting underneath the words. This work is informed by Self-Reflective Relationship Therapy (SRRT), a framework I am developing. SRRT holds a core idea: what remains unseen within us often becomes repeated between us. The version of you that learned, early on, to anticipate disappointment, to manage other people's moods, to keep the peace, to perform competence, to stay quiet, to keep score, or to leave first will keep showing up in your relationship until you can see it clearly. SRRT is not a cure, not a hack, and not a substitute for therapy. It is the framework I bring to the room, and it is meant to give us a shared language for the patterns that are usually too close to see. In our sessions, you can expect honesty, structure, and warmth held together. I will not tell you what to do or whether to stay. I will not perform neutrality when I see something worth naming. I will help you slow down enough to see what you and your partner (or you and yourself) have actually been carrying, and to make sense of why it has been so hard to put down. We will move between what is happening between you in the room and what each of you brought into the room before this relationship existed. The patterns usually live in both places at once. Couples often come to me when they have stopped recognizing the relationship they once had, when one or both partners are quietly considering whether to stay, when trust has been ruptured, or when they want to do the deeper work before things become more strained. Individuals often come to me when they have noticed a pattern they cannot break alone, when a relationship has ended and they want to understand their part, or when self-reflection has stopped feeling like something they can do without help. You will not be rushed. You will not be handed a worksheet and sent home. The work is slower than most therapy you have probably encountered, and that is on purpose. Real change in how we love and how we are loved tends to happen at the speed of honesty, not the speed of strategy. If you are looking for short-term symptom relief, a place to vent without much pushback, or a therapist who will tell you what to do, I am probably not the right fit. If you are looking for depth, accountability, and a slower kind of work where understanding yourself in relationship is the point, I would be glad to hear from you. I see couples and individuals in person in Cambridge, MA, and via secure telehealth throughout Massachusetts.