Bettina Dee Psychotherapy Services

Welcome

I provide psychotherapy services with an emphasis on trauma therapy and am conveniently located in Cambridge, MA serving the surrounding areas including Boston, Somerville, Arlington and Watertown.  My work is dedicated to helping those who have experienced trauma and want to heal.  If that is you, I can help you:

• discover the experiences and beliefs that most influence your life
• heal emotional wounds that block your path to a joyous life
• and help you flourish within yourself, in relationships and in your life's work.

The foundation of my service is deep respect and compassion for my clients.  This creates the safety from which discovery and healing begins. 

Over many years you may have developed coping mechanisms and survival strategies to help you deal with dangerous or desperate situations.  While these have helped you survive, they may now be causing you to feel stuck and in pain.  For instance, you might be isolating yourself, working too hard, numbing yourself, or having angry outbursts.

Any of these behaviors might be causing you to seek help.  These coping strategies will change naturally and adapt more to your present life, when you are in a safer environment, and when we heal the original wounds that they are protecting.  A safe environment must have a non-judgmental and caring human being, for transformation to be possible.  I provide that compassionate care and teach you how to provide it yourself.

While I have experience in various methodologies, I specialize in the Internal Family Systems model of therapy- a powerful approach to emotional healing that is extremely safe and effective.  To learn more, please read my introduction to IFS.