Insurance plans Deirdre can accept: -Aetna
-BlueCross and BlueShield
-Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP)
-Carelon (Unicare, Wellpoint, Fallon, Beacon Health, Emblem, Partners, Value Options, Be Healthy, Empire, Partners Comm)
-Wellsense
-Commonwealth Care Alliance
-Cigna (Wellfleet)
-Health New England
-MassHealth Standard
-Medicare
-Optum (Allways, VACCN, UnitedHealthcare, Health Plans Inc, Oxford, UMR, Mass General)
-Point32: Tufts Public, Tufts Health Plans, Harvard Pilgrim
-Tufts Commercial
-Tufts Public
-Tricare East: Humana
-Out-of-Pocket/Self-Paid

Location: Amherst, Hybrid

Deirdre is a psychotherapist who believes success in therapy begins in a supportive environment. She believes in each person’s ability to sense the most authentic path for themselves when given the space to be guided inward. She works with individual adults who need support with life transitions, low self-esteem, anxiety and mood disorders.

She works with a blended approach, tailoring sessions to each person’s needs. Modalities she draws from include dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and narrative therapy. She incorporates experiential therapies wherever helpful, including internal family systems informed parts work and guided somatic meditations. She has experience with expressive writing as a cathartic practice and sometimes incorporates this into the healing process.

Deirdre has experience in psychiatric emergency services, community crisis stabilization units, and outpatient settings, including a specialty clinic treating first episode psychosis. She enjoys supporting people from an array of cultural communities. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Mount Holyoke College and a Master of Social Work degree from Westfield State University.