Individual Therapy
The guidance and support you need to live a manageable, meaningful, sober life.
Recovery isn’t just about putting down drugs and alcohol.
Taking the courageous step to stop using—and one day at a time staying stopped—is often the foundation for discovering new ways of living.
At Rooted Recovery Therapy, I work with people who want to feel grounded in their sobriety, the foundation that allows them to engage in life. I support clients to connect to their sober life, build and solidify their foundations, and discover new ways of living that feel both manageable and meaningful.
Whether you’ve been sober for years or just a couple of weeks, individual therapy can give you the tools and support you need for what you’re seeking in sobriety, whether that’s more freedom, more peace, more healthy relationships, more stability, and more ability to change and adapt. The gifts of sobriety truly are endless and I believe that therapy can have a unique role in supporting the discovery of those gifts!
Therapy can help you:
Feel less alone
Gain clarity and perspective
Understand the root causes of why you are struggling
Manage challenging emotions and relationships
Identify barriers to action, helping you take steps toward change
Build a new relationship with yourself, and have more self-compassion
Maintain your sobriety by addressing mental and emotional relapse triggers
My approach to therapy
I work with people who are living a sober life, or consider themselves to be recovering/in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. My work as a therapist draws from spiritual concepts of recovery like acceptance, willingness, letting go, asking for help, and seeking greater meaning and purpose. I like to keep therapy practical as well, offering what is needed to make life more manageable day-to-day, like skills to manage intense emotions, tools to help set boundaries in relationships, or insight about places of “stuckness” or frustration in life.
Many of my clients find supportive sober relationships important to their process, and some have found a spiritual solution through their 12-Step work. I see therapy as a complementary space to their recovery efforts, a place where they specifically address challenges like anxiety, depression, codependency, and trauma. A place where they can work with a trusted professional, and receive the guidance, insight, and practical tools they need both to feel grounded and to grow, both mentally and emotionally.
I offer individual therapy virtually, for adults in Massachusetts, with plans to expand to in-person therapy in the Boston area.
Frequently Asked Questions
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I graduated from Boston University with my Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine in 2013.
My career began at the Faulkner Hospital, in the detox and partial program, where I developed a love for addiction recovery work. From 2014 until 2020 I worked with hundreds of individual clients, and many more in group therapy. From 2016-2020 I was the group therapy program coordinator and lead group therapist at the Gavin Foundation. From 2020 until 2024 I worked at a group private practice where I focused exclusively on longterm individual therapy.
I have expertise in working with a number of challenges that can co-occur with addiction, including anxiety, depression, disordered eating, high sensitivity, ADHD, childhood emotional neglect (CEN), and codependency.
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I am not in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. I have lived experience with other mental health conditions, and live a recovery lifestyle as it pertains to them—engaging in a regular set of behaviors and activities that maintain my mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health to keep me feeling my best.
I am very familiar with the 12 steps through my work, and have attended many AA and Al-Anon meetings to grow my understanding about the spiritual solution for recovery.
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I can understand why you’d wonder about this! I often find that the present has enough challenges of its own, and so my focus in therapy is on how to make day-to-day living more functional, peaceful, and possible, in the context of being sober.
Conversations about the past can help us make connections to our present-day challenges, but please rest-assured that the goal of therapy is not to explore the past at the expense of what we need in the present (stability, safety, support, guidance, etc.)
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My current rate is $185 per 50-minute session. I offer a free 15-minute consultation so we can explore whether we’re a good fit before getting started.
I’m an out-of-network provider, which means I don’t bill insurance directly. I can provide you with a monthly superbill to submit to your insurance if you have out-of-network behavioral health benefits.
If this feels financially out of reach, please consider the group therapy page to see if there is a current group option that would suit your needs. (Or reach out to let me know about a group you’d like to see!) Group therapy is 35 dollars per session.
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We’ll meet once a week initially, to help us to connect and gain momentum for our work. Over time, as you meet your goals we can decrease to biweekly and then monthly, before wrapping up our work.