Individualized treatment grounded in evidence

We begin by understanding what is bringing you to therapy, how the problem is affecting your life, what you've already tried, and—most importantly—what you want to be different.

From there, we develop a treatment plan that combines evidence-based strategies with your individual goals, values, and preferences.

Areas of Specialty

Five Towns Psychology specializes in:

• Anxiety
• OCD, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
• Depression, including Behavioral Activation (BA)
• Trauma and PTSD, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
• Emotion regulation, using DBT-informed treatment

We also work with ADHD-related difficulties, relationship challenges, life transitions, and parenting and family stress.

What Treatment May Look Like

Therapy is active and collaborative. Depending on your goals, treatment may involve learning new skills, identifying patterns that are keeping you stuck, approaching situations you've been avoiding, practicing new ways of responding, examining beliefs, or completing exercises between sessions.

Some clients benefit from a structured treatment protocol. Others may need a more flexible approach that draws from several evidence-based methods.

The goal is not to fit you into a protocol. It's to use the right tools to help you move toward what matters to you.

Who We Work With

We provide individual therapy for:

• Children ages 8 and up
• Adolescents
• Adults

With children and adolescents, parent involvement is incorporated when clinically appropriate and helpful to treatment.

Our Approach

Treatment may draw from:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
• Behavioral Activation (BA)
• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
• DBT-informed skills, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness

Each approach is used in the context of your goals. Evidence helps guide treatment; your values help determine where treatment is going.

Fully Virtual Care

All sessions are conducted through telehealth for clients located in New York and Florida, allowing therapy to fit more easily around work, school, parenting, and other responsibilities.