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I offer a warm, trauma-informed, and collaborative approach that honors each client’s story while supporting healing, growth, and ...
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I offer a warm, trauma-informed, and collaborative approach that honors each client’s story while supporting healing, growth, and resilience.
I am a Master’s Level Counselor with 13 years of experience providing direct care and outpatient counseling. I work primarily with adults facing anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, and stress related to work, family, or identity. I also support individuals navigating complex medical or developmental concerns, helping them build emotional stability and stronger coping skills.
I earned my master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Merrimack College. My approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive, integrating evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and strength-based therapy to support emotional regulation and insight.
In our work together, you can expect a supportive, nonjudgmental space where we move at a pace that feels safe and empowering. I am committed to meeting you with empathy and respect as we develop practical tools to help you heal, grow, and create a more balanced life.
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As a queer clinician, my work centers authentic connection and safety while honoring how lived experience, identity, relationships...
As a queer clinician, my work centers authentic connection and safety while honoring how lived experience, identity, relationships and larger systems intersect in shaping each person’s story.
I'm Sarah, LCSW (she/her), with a background in anti-poverty, child welfare, and family systems work. Much of my professional experience includes supporting individuals and families navigating financial stress, caregiving roles, system involvement, and intergenerational challenges. I often work with young people and adults who are feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or disconnected while seeking stability, advocacy, and more sustainable paths forward for themselves and their families.
My approach is trauma-informed, relational, and systems-aware. I draw from family systems and strengths-based frameworks, centering safety, collaboration, and self- and community-care. I help clients reflect on patterns, navigate complex systems, and build practical tools rooted in their values and lived experience.
So many people arrive in therapy carrying stress shaped by systems, relationships, and responsibility. I work to create a space where you feel supported, understood, and encouraged to take the next step at your own pace.
I strive to help each client utilize their strengths to improve their quality of life through a queer, sober, neurodivergent-infor...
I strive to help each client utilize their strengths to improve their quality of life through a queer, sober, neurodivergent-informed, compassionate yet direct approach.
I am a Resident Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 2 years of experience in inpatient psychiatry, outpatient therapy, and programs supporting gender expression and identity. I provide trauma-informed, inclusive care for individuals navigating anxiety, depression, identity exploration, and trauma. I strive to create a safe, supportive space where clients can engage in emotional growth, self-discovery, and evidence-based strategies for healing.
I hold a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Lesley University and have training in cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and motivational interviewing. My approach is humanistic and creative, helping clients build resilience, develop coping strategies, and achieve personal growth.
I am passionate about helping people reach their full potential in a non-judgmental, supportive environment. Clients can expect to feel challenged and encouraged to build self-esteem, recognize strengths, and move forward with confidence and genuine support.
I am a therapist who has experienced personal trauma and grief which I believe makes me highly empathetic and relatable to those w...
I am a therapist who has experienced personal trauma and grief which I believe makes me highly empathetic and relatable to those with trauma history and knowledgeable on helping others to work through complex difficult emotions while engaging in valuable self-reflection.
I am a Clinical Expressive Arts Therapist and talk therapist who has been working in the field for about 8 years. I have worked in a variety of clinical settings, including inpatient hospitals, substance use programs, school settings, and outpatient therapy clinics. I have worked with different ages including children 4 to 10, teens 14 to 18, young adults in their 20s to 40s, and older adults 40+. I have experience with diagnoses including depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, substance use disorder, trauma history, and life transitions. I also have a background in yoga and mindfulness and incorporate them into sessions.
My focus is helping clients process difficult emotions, develop emotional regulation and coping skills. I am currently working toward my REAT license (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist) and can bring expressive therapy into sessions if the client is open to that approach. No background in art is necessary and talk therapy is also an option.
I am a highly empathetic therapist with a person-centered and solution-focused approach. I will help you to identify emotions, regulate your nervous system, engage in mindfulness, improve relationships, and navigate life transitions. I also have a background in DBT and CBT if a client wants to learn more coping and interpersonal skills.
As a queer-identified woman, I understand the unique issue of identity exploration and life stressors....
As a queer-identified woman, I understand the unique issue of identity exploration and life stressors.
Krystle Kellick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been using CBT to help her clients for the past 2 years. It’s helped dozens of clients challenge reoccurring thoughts and manage their anxiety. CBT to used to recognize how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence each other. She will then use that knowledge to change your thinking patterns, which will help you lead a less anxious and stressed life. She is passionate about helping adolescents, adults, and couples address their unique challenges and live more fulfilled lives. Krystle specializes in anxiety, trauma, and LGBTQ+ issues.
Krystle completed her Master of Social Work (MSW) at the University of Illinois Chicago. Krystle utilizes multiple treatment approaches including mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, solution-focused therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT/RO-DBT), and cognitive processing therapy (CPT).
We all go through challenges in life. Krystle is confident that she would be able to support you on your journey to gain new perspectives and techniques that allow you to cope with whatever you may be struggling with. If you are ready to do the work, schedule an appointment with her today!
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Family therapy helps families resolve conflicts and strengthen their relationships. It is led by qualified mental health professionals like psychologists, licensed professional counselors (LPCs), and licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs) who have extensive training in family dynamics and group communication.
Thriveworks family therapists in Amherst, MA usually begin by asking what everyone’s goals are for family counseling. Family members may need help with very specific issues or with general relationship functioning. But there are three main purposes in family counseling: to educate, to counsel, and to strengthen. Thriveworks also offers online family therapy and in-person services, so you may all meet in an office together or join a video call from your home depending on everyone’s location and availability.
The most effective form of Family therapy will often depend on the family itself, as there are many types of family therapy for therapists to use as they see fit in order to best meet the needs of their clients. However, one of the most commonly used types of family therapy is structural family therapy (SFT). SFT focuses specifically on family dynamics and interactions, looking at how they shape the relationships and structure present in the family. It can be effectively used to treat a variety of concerns.
This answer often looks different to each family that starts family therapy. However, some signs that your family might need to consider family counseling include frequent fights or misunderstandings, constant tension, experiencing loss, behavioral issues, marital issues, divorce, and blended family issues, among others.
In family therapy, therapists will often start by asking questions and assessing individual and family dynamics. From there, they may employ therapeutic techniques such as structured family therapy, CBT, strategic family therapy, and more depending on the present concerns and conflicts. From there, a therapist will work to open lines of communication between family members and facilitate emotional healing and growth.
Family therapy can be incredibly successful, with some studies reporting a success rate of almost 90% for improving participants’ emotional and mental health, and around 66% for improving their physical health.
Thriveworks therapists in Amherst, MA offer both online family therapy and in-person family therapy. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
Family therapy is usually short term and solution-focused, with most families accomplishing their goals in 12 sessions or fewer. However, it can also last for longer if the probles at hand are more complex — and that’s okay, too.
Family structures and dynamics have an impact on who we are, what we become and, overall, influence the direction that our lives take. For example, the family we are born into will determine the language we use, the customs we adopt, the rituals and culture we participate in. All these factors help to shape our very identify.
Because one cannot choose nor trade away family members, someone in the midst of family conflict can feel helpless and lose hope. This sense of powerlessness can affect one’s self-esteem, sense of efficacy and increase symptoms of depression and anxiety. Substance abuse may occur as a misguided attempt to cope with the pain. But this only compounds the problem. To work with a family therapist at Thriveworks Amherst call today at (413) 634-4805.
Seeking the help of a professional therapist, trained in the nature of family dynamics and with years of experience providing therapy for those caught in the pain of family dysfunction, may be the first step in addressing family issues and bringing the reconciliation that can heal a family. A trained family therapist or counselor, such as those at Thriveworks Amherst, can help identify unhealthy behavior patterns in a family and help change the dynamics of the family’s structure that generate these patterns. A family member can also be supportive to the family as a whole as well as each family member. The family therapist’s intent is to identify and meet the needs of each family member while bringing a functional cohesiveness to the family unit. The result is healthier patterns of relating and more effective methods of communication within the family.
Family therapy can take many forms and go by many titles such as:
A trained family therapist will help the client identify and analyze the dynamics involved with intimate relationships including an assessment of both strengths and weaknesses in the family structure. A therapist may also offer to investigate and/or adopt alternative structures or systems that can bring resolution and healing to those relationships. The lens of family therapy sees the family unit as an important part of an individual’s cognitive and emotional well-being.
Issues of individual family members that may affect the overall structure of the family unit include:
There are various approaches that family therapists practice. Some of these approaches and techniques may include:
The treatment that is used by a specific family therapist will depend on that therapist’s training and will determine the specific techniques implemented. But the end goal will be the same, healing of the structures, patterns and dynamics that create family dysfunction and emotional pain. This may include the use of behavior therapy to treat conduct disorders of children that can be extremely disruptive and problematic to the family unit.
Family therapists at Thriveworks Amherst are leaders in their field. They are all licensed therapists and trained to address intricacies involved in the specific issues and problems afflicting your family and of relationships within them.
Whatever the source of the issues in your relationships, everyone involved deserves to be treated with the respect and dignity that a Thriveworks counselor will provide. They also have the skills to help you and your family develop new, healthy ways to deal with problems and learn healthy communication.
Thriveworks does not have a waitlist and new clients can often meet with their provider within the same week as scheduling. So, call today at 413-634-4805. Thriveworks family therapists can help you obtain healthy, loving, and respectful relationships.
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Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Amherst is located near Kellogg Ave and N Pleasant St, off MA-9. It is close to the Jones Library and a short distance from Amherst College.
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