Michelle’s Approach
My work is trauma-centered. This framework may be helpful for you even if you do not identify as surviving trauma since anxiety, panic attacks, depression, intense emotions, difficulties with adjustments, low self-esteem and unwanted behaviors often stem from upsetting past events, loss, or trauma. (These events can be individual incidents, longer-term relationships or interpersonal dynamics, jarring experiences, systems of oppression, intergenerational trauma, racism and institutional harm.)
I am trained in specific techniques to manage symptoms AND foster healing and growth. My treatment approach is also grounded in relational, attachment, and somatic and polyvagal theories and framed by social justice and anti-oppression work. If we work together, we will work collaboratively as you cultivate insight, heal relationships, control upsetting emotions, change behaviors, receive validation and support, and make positive changes in your life no matter what symptoms you are experiencing. Our work together may also include some combination of the following according to your needs:
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
The Flash Technique with demo here
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and other somatic and embodied practices
Ego State Therapy (like IFS, but with more options)
Who I work with
I work with individuals 18 years of age and older. I welcome and am committed to working with the LGBTQ community, BIPOC individuals, and with a Health at Every Size framework.
Due to my licenses, I can only work with people who are in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, or Maine.
intensive Format
I have been offering individual intensives for over 10 years, using a relational approach to EMDR as a core trauma-processing intervention. Intensives are appropriate for people with a specific concern that they would like to focus on, people who would like to do a chunk of trauma processing at once, or for people who may live out of the area. I have used this format with:
folks who have survived complex, ongoing or single incident trauma (s) or other upsetting events
creatives, artists and/or academics who are trying to make a shift in their work
people healing from racism and/or intergenerational trauma
others who are working to shift interpersonal dynamics or behaviors of some kind
Working in an intensive format can save you months or years of treatment. It helps you heal from past wounds and move beyond just coping with concerns or behaviors that may be getting in your way.
Intensives are currently NOT covered by insurance.
I offer half-day (3 hours for $700) and full day (6 hours for $1400) intensives.
I can schedule during the week and occasionally, on the weekends. Intensives can be online in the states of Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, or New York; and in-person in Massachusetts.
You can read more about intensives here, written by Dr. Ricky Greenwald, the director of the Trauma Institute and researcher on the intensive method.
Weekly Format
All of my weekly slots are currently full. Please check the CONTACT page to see which associates have openings.
Insurances I accept: Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Mass General Brigham’s ACO (masshealth) and employee plans, Tricare, Medicare, Medicare and Medicare with Masshealth, Tufts and Tufts Public Plans (Masshealth), and Harvard Pilgrim. I can also bill as an "out of network provider" if your insurance plan offers these benefits. I can also supply a super bill.
Group format
coming Fall 2026