Author: Amanda Bruce
Clinician Spotlight: May
Meet Kayla Esce, LMHC! Counseling Services of Greater Boston’s Kayla Esce, LMHC, is a trained art and expressive therapist who uses trauma sensitive, and cognitive/behavioral treatment approaches to help children, families, and individuals develop insight about their symptoms and find healthy ways to cope with stress.
Clinician Spotlight: April
Meet Kristen Pratt, LMHC! Counseling Services of Greater Boston’s Kristen Pratt, LMHC, is a trained art and expressive therapist who specializes in treating trauma, attachment, and disorders of childhood and adolescence. Kristen utilizes a strength-based family systems approach in working with individuals, couples, and families.
Clinician Spotlight: March
Meet Amanda Bruce, LMHC! In addition to managing Counseling Services of Greater Boston’s social media pages, Amanda is a skillful mental health counselor who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, and in the strengthening of adolescent girls’ self-esteem.
Clinician Spotlight: February
Meet Kristen Radlinski, LICSW! Counseling Services of Greater Boston’s co-founder, Kristen Radlinski, LICSW, is a knowledgeable social worker who has an extensive history in treating clients who struggle with substance abuse and trauma. Kristen also has significant experience treating couples.
Clinician Spotlight: January
Meet Dana Venable, LMHC, ATR! She is the co-founder and chief financial officer of Counseling Services of Greater Boston. She is an experienced art and talk therapist who employs many artistic modalities to suit her clients’ needs. She treats children, adolescents, and adults, and has been practicing outpatient counseling for eight years.
Happy New Year! Forget Those Resolutions.
…Or at least, make them realistic. Check out this funny, informative video that explains the psychology of why New Year’s resolutions tend to fail. So, don’t be too hard on yourselves, and Happy New Year from us at CSGB to you.
Mindfulness as a Superpower
Happy Holidays, everyone!
You may have heard of mindfulness – a concept brought into popular media by Thich Nhat Hanh and other self-help gurus. In the below animation, Dan Harris of Good Morning America illustrates the process of mindfulness, and how it just may be the next up-and-coming superpower.
Enjoy!
New DBT Group Starting!
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: DBT is a cognitive-behavioral approach that helps people who are prone to react with an intense or out of the ordinary level of emotion to stressors, putting strain on their most important relationships. DBT helps reduce black and white thinking, improve relationships, and teaches skills that will help to manage these strong emotional swings.
Start date: Wednesday, January 6th at 5:30pm
6 Month DBT group for Young Women, ages 16-20
This 6 month group will focus on teaching the four core principles of Dialectical Behavioral
The four principles/modules of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy:
Mindfulness
Distress Tolerance
Emotion Regulation
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Treatment goals of the group:
Learn how to deal with strong and sometimes painful emotions
Decrease impulsive and self-destructive behavior
Develop problem-solving and decision making skills
Identify options for handling extreme situations and conflicts
Learn effective communication skills to communicate effectively with peers, adults, and family.
Improve self esteem and self care
The group format will consist of activities that allow group members practice the skill in group. Lecture, instruction, discussion, expressive therapy, and weekly homework assignments that encourage group members to take what they learn in group and apply it to their world.
Members must understand the importance of regular attendance to group and be willing to make a 6 month commitment to the group. This allows for a comfortable pace through all of the four core DBT principles. There will be lots of room for examples, practice, and questions.
To make a referral, please call our intake line, (781) 328-1904, x100.
Calm down!
We’ve all been there. We’ve been worked up, and said something we didn’t want to say or made a poor decision. Well, did you know it’s partially because your brain is getting less oxygen at that moment? Check out this informative video that provides us with both an explanation of the brain’s processes, and practical skills that will help us to calm down.
