i.
The strategies are wearing out
The journal, the routine, the reframing — they kept working, and now they mostly keep the feeling at a distance. You can tell the difference, and the difference is what you came here about.
You're managingeverything well.You always have.
And something is still off. You may feel broken, or just quietly not right. Either way, the coping that carried you here has started to cost more than it used to.
I work with thoughtful adults who are done using coping as a goal: people who have read the books, tried the frameworks, and still feel like something hasn't shifted at the root.
Accepting new clients for individual and couples counseling. Ask about intensives. Private pay.
Who I see · I
Is this you?
ii.
From the outside, you’re fine
You answer questions well. You hold it together in public. And you know, in the quiet, that performance and aliveness are not the same thing.
iii.
You’ve thought about this for a while
It’s been a background process — a low rumble under the life. You’re not here because something broke; you’re here because something has been waiting.
iv.
A relationship is asking something of you
The same patterns, the same distance, the same well-meaning repairs that don’t quite land. The relationship is the text; you are both reading it.
v.
Something old is still moving in you
A grief, a loss, a piece of a story you were young when it happened. You’ve done the practical work of living with it — and it has not done the work of leaving. Therapy is where that gets done, slowly and well, in a place that can hold it.
If any of this lands — and you're tired of coping as the answer — that is exactly the moment good therapy can do its quietest, most useful work.
How I work · II
You are not one voice. You are a whole inner cast.
In Internal Family Systems, the parts of you that seem scattered or contradictory are actually people who developed for good reason. The overachieving one, the bracing one, the one who goes quiet — each was once a smart, well-intentioned answer to something you'd have been young enough to be overwhelmed by.
The work is not to fix or silence them. It is to get to know them — what they're carrying, what they're protecting — so that the leadership of your life can move back to where it belongs: Self, the part of you that is naturally curious, clear, and calm.
Self
Self is the quiet, expansive center of you — the part of your experience that is naturally curious, clear, and calm, and from which the healthiest leading comes.
What sessions are actually like · III
Therapy as two minds in a room, working in partnership.
i.
Depth, not band-aids
I don’t treat symptoms one at a time. We work toward the underneath of what’s been happening — the belief, the body, the old pattern — so that relief isn’t just a patch that holds for a few weeks, but a settlement that keeps.
ii.
Warmth with backbone
You’ll be met without judgment and without flattery. I hold space for exactly what you bring, and I’m willing to say the careful, honest thing when it matters — because real change has always been a little more work than comfort.
iii.
Your life as the text
We read you the way a good teacher reads a novel — closely, with an ear for what’s underneath. The sessions are built around what your life is actually asking, not around a worksheet or a diagnosis.
“I create a space safe enough for honesty, thoughtful enough for meaningful connection, and supportive enough for real change.”
About · IV
A second act, on purpose.
For twelve years I taught English as an adjunct professor — close reading, close listening, the patient work of meeting a text where it actually is. It turns out that skill travels well into a therapy room.
I also brought a decade of my own psychoanalysis to the work. Knowing what it is to sit on the other side of a room, and to be slowly, carefully met, shapes everything about how I practice.
At sixty, I returned to school — and graduated at the top of my class in community mental health. I opened my practice in 2017, deliberately, as a second act rather than a career change out of nowhere. It was simply the work I’d been doing all along, given a room.
I’m a mother, a step-mother, a grandmother. I think in the long view, and I read people with a literary ear. Both are advantages.
- License
- LMHC #10427 · Massachusetts
- Certifications
- NCC · CCMHC
- Graduate Training
- M.A., Community Mental Health (CACREP)
- Prior Career
- M.A., English · Adjunct Professor
- In practice since
- 2017
- Modalities
- IFS · Depth-oriented · Relational · Trauma-informed
Sunflower Intensives · V
Begin a journey to the root of yourself and your relationships, from where you are.
What an intensive is
Weekly therapy works. It also stops at fifty minutes, often just as something real comes up, and a week later you start over. An intensive gives the work room. We meet for extended time — a half day, a full day, or two sessions of four or six hours — and we follow what surfaces all the way through.
You get the depth of months of weekly sessions in a few days, without losing momentum in between.
For couples
You keep having the same fight, and you both know how it goes before it starts. One of you gets louder, the other goes quiet, and nothing gets settled.
You aren’t ready to give up. You want to understand what’s happening between you, and what to do the next time it starts.
For individuals
You’ve done some therapy, maybe read the books, and you can name your patterns. Naming them hasn’t changed them.
Or you’re at a turning point — a loss, a decision, a relationship that needs a hard look — and you want focused time instead of months of weekly sessions.
What we work on
Where you come from
We map your family history together — the rules you learned without being told they were rules.
What your body does under stress
Why you get loud, leave, go blank, or give in, and how to notice it early enough to choose.
What takes over
The protective parts of you that step in during conflict, and what each one is guarding.
Saying the hard thing completely
How to speak from what’s actually happening in you, not from the defensive part that’s easiest to lead with.
A plan you leave with
Concrete agreements and language to use the next time the old pattern starts.
What you take home
A workbook built from your own sessions: your family map, the tools we practiced, and the agreements you made. A follow-up check-in within two weeks. A booster session or ongoing weekly work is available whenever you want to build on it.
Getting started
Start with a complimentary 15-minute fit check by phone. We’ll talk about what you’re hoping for and whether an intensive is the right fit. If it is, we choose a format and hold your dates.
Schedule a fit checkSessions & fees · VI
Clear, considered, no surprises.
Fees are stated up front and in writing. If a given session is the wrong shape for you, we’ll say so and adjust it together.
Initial consultation
15-minute fit check
Complimentary
Individual psychotherapy
50 min, in-person or telehealth
$195
Extended session
75 min
$285
Couples therapy
80 min
$295
Intensive therapy
Half-day, full-day, or multi-day — ask
Inquire
Writing · VII
Field notes from the practice.
Field notes — in progress
The first essays are nearly here.
These will be slow, careful pieces — the kind a therapist writes at the speed of her own experience: on coping that quietly outlives its usefulness, on why the right answer can still arrive too late, on the particular loneliness of the competent. Nothing will be here for the algorithm. Leave an address and I 'll let you know.
— Linda
Ready when you are.
A short, no-pressure conversation about whether we'd be a good fit.
Begin · VIII
Take the first quiet step.
The first step rarely looks like the whole journey. Send a few words about what brings you here, and I'll reply personally within two business days. There is no obligation, and no script to follow.
- Phone
- 508-272-1391
- Location
- 575 South St W, Suite 2, Raynham, MA 02767 — plus telehealth across Massachusetts
- Hours
- By appointment