Insurance plans accepted:
Aetna BlueCross and BlueShield Carelon: MBHP, BMC, Unicare, Fallon, GIC-Unicare, Wellsense (BMC) Commonwealth Care Alliance
Cigna: Wellfleet
Health New England Medicare
Optum: Allways, VACCN, UnitedHealthcare, Health Plans Inc, Oxford, UMR, Mass General Brigham Point32: Tufts Public, Tufts Health Plans, Harvard Pilgrim Tufts Commercial
Tufts Public Out-of-Pocket/Self-Paid

Location: Amherst, Hybrid

Chris takes multi-disciplinary approaches to working collaboratively with others. He incorporates fundamentals and principles from multiple psychodynamic schools of thought and supplements these ideas with skills from DBT, CBT, Control Mastery, and narrative therapy. Chris is determined to recognize each client’s strengths, and works diligently to adapt to every client’s own needs, whether they come from internal or external challenges in their lives.

Chris’ clinical interests include working with individuals across all identities. He has been a resident in the Pioneer Valley for over a decade. He has many years of experience advocating for people with developmental disabilities, and has spent extensive volunteer time at local agencies that support child adoptees. He also has a long history of collaborating with advocacy organizations that focus on gender and sexual identity. It is important for him to exercise cultural humility alongside his advocacy work. Additionally, Chris has had coursework and training on how to provide therapeutic services to assist clients in accessing gender-affirming medical care.

Chris has worked in various settings providing individual therapy for children, adolescents, young adults and their families. He has worked as a therapist in a local elementary school, a Five College University, and an outpatient clinic. Chris has also run multiple therapeutic groups, and he has prior experience working with couples and families in various environments.