Insurance plans Deirdre can accept: Aetna BlueCross and BlueShield Carelon: MBHP, Wellsense BMC, Unicare, Fallon, GIC-Unicare Health New England Optum: Allways, VACCN, UnitedHealthcare, Health Plans Inc, Oxford, UMR, Mass General Brigham Point32: Tufts Public, Tufts Health Plans, Harvard Pilgrim Tufts Commercial
Tufts Public Tricare East Out-of-Pocket/Self-Paid

Location: Amherst, Hybrid

Deirdre is a psychotherapist with over 9 years of experience in the field. She believes success in therapy begins with a supportive environment and 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 has experience working in a variety of environments with diverse populations and enjoys supporting people from an array of cultural communities.

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.