Embodying Compassion, Boston Psychotherapy

Community Access Program 

Service offerings Information: 

Fee: Community Access Program, Accepting Aetna, BCBS or free of cost, limited spots available for this program

Provider: Morgan O’Connor, LMHC intern, supervised by Aly Gorel LICSW and Nick Mescia LMHC.

Length of services: Short term: 6 to 15 weeks or case by case.

Contact information: 

Morgan O’connor: admin@ecbostontherapy.com 

Aly Gorel: Alyssa@ecbostontherapy.com 

Services

Coping Skills Toolkit Lab:

• Focus: Building a personalized set of skills for emotional regulation and stress management.
• Activities: Includes practical exercises in breath work, grounding techniques, and other evidence-based emotion regulation strategies.
• Outcome: Clients leave feeling empowered with a robust, custom toolkit to confidently navigate times of stress.

• School Success Coaching:
  • Focus: Overcoming barriers to academic achievement, particularly those related to executive function challenges.
  • Activities: Developing skills such as task breakdown, effective study planning, time management, and integrating emotional regulation into the learning process.
  • Outcome: Students establish tailored, fine-tuned systems and processes that support sustained academic success.
• Transition Resilience Support:
  • Focus: Alleviating anxiety and providing comprehensive support for students navigating significant life changes (e.g., middle school to high school, high school to college).
  • Activities: Processing emotions related to the unknown, developing strategies for making new connections, enhancing time management, and building self-advocacy skills.
  • Outcome: Students process fears of change and develop confidence in their ability to manage new environments and responsibilities.
• Values & Identity Exploration:
  • Focus: Guiding clients through the process of self-discovery, identity formation, and future planning.
  • Activities: Engaging in values-clarification exercises, navigating challenges related to peer pressure and social media influence, and exploring post-secondary options.
  • Outcome: Clients gain clarity on their core values, leading to greater self-security and informed decision-making about their future.
• Social-Emotional Intelligence Sessions:
  • Focus: Expanding emotional literacy and improving interpersonal skills essential for healthy relationships and development.
  • Activities: Using tools like the feelings wheel to increase emotional vocabulary, practicing body-based awareness to locate and understand emotions, and distinguishing thoughts from feelings to aid regulation. Additional skill-building includes practicing empathy, conflict resolution, setting healthy boundaries, evaluating consequences, interpreting social cues, and improving communication and listening skills.
  • Outcome: Clients enhance their ability to identify and regulate emotions, leading to improved communication, stronger relationships, and better conflict management.