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Welcome to Between Us Counseling
Our Vision
Our Vision is to provide a judgment-free and safe space for anyone seeking therapy. Our therapists have diverse experience in outpatient and community behavioral health clinics. This experience has informed our strengths-based and collaborative approach to our clients. We work with adults of all ages to set personalized short and long-term goals that evolve as needed. We focus on cultivating a solid relationship with our clients through empathy, compassion, curiosity, humor, authenticity, and respect as we fundamentally believe that doing so ensures the best long-term outcomes for our clients.
Empowering You to Achieve Happiness
Individual Counseling
Our individual counseling services are designed to help you overcome personal challenges and achieve your goals. Our licensed counselors provide a supportive and non-judgmental environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your behavior, and develop strategies for positive change.
Couples Counseling
Our Couples Counseling Services can help you and your partner improve communication, resolve conflicts, and build a stronger relationship. Whether you are facing challenges related to intimacy, trust, or other issues, our experienced therapists can help you work through them and achieve greater satisfaction in your relationship.
Narcisssit Survival Counseling
Our Narcissist Survivor Counseling services are designed to help you set healthy boundaries, coparent with a narcissist, understand your parent narcisist, divorce a narcisssist, understand your trauma, overcome challenges related to communication, conflict, and other issues. Our licensed therapists work with narcissist survivors to identify strengths and weaknesses, improve communication and problem-solving skills, and develop a stronger sense of self and empowerment.
Career Counseling
Our career counseling services can help you identify your strengths, interests, and values, and develop a plan to achieve your career goals. Our experienced career counselors can provide guidance on job search strategies, resume writing, interviewing skills, and more, to help you succeed in your chosen field.
Unlock Your Potential with Between Us Counseling
Anxiety Counseling
Our anxiety counseling services are designed to help you overcome fear, stress, and anxiety. Our licensed therapists provide a supportive and non-judgmental environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your behavior, and develop strategies to manage your anxiety.
Depression Counseling
Our depression counseling services can help you overcome feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and despair. Our experienced therapists can provide a supportive and non-judgmental environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your behavior, and develop strategies to manage your depression.
Trauma Counseling
Our trauma counseling services can help you overcome the effects of traumatic events. Our licensed therapists use evidence-based techniques to help you heal from the psychological impact of trauma, including PTSD, anxiety, and depression. We provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your experiences and develop strategies to move forward.
Life Coaching
Our life coaching services can help you achieve your personal and professional goals. Our experienced coaches provide guidance, support, and motivation to help you identify your strengths, overcome obstacles, and achieve success in all areas of your life.
Anger Management Counseling
Our anger management counseling services can help you manage and control your anger in healthy ways. Our experienced therapists provide guidance and support to help you identify the root causes of your anger, develop coping skills, and improve your relationships with others.
Between Us Counseling: Meet our therapist
Patrick Travis
Patrick graduated from Cambridge College with a Master's in Mental Health Counseling. My experience includes working for the multicultural clinic Embrace Pathways to Wellness where I first worked with multicultural couples. My experience also includes community healthcare where I worked at Eliot Behavioral Health Clinics serving the community. My experience also includes working for Vitruvian Behavioral Healthcare doing outpatient therapy online for couples and individual adults.
Patrick has changed careers and has worked in construction, for the Federal Government in a union job, as a union steward, in IT in Finance, which has built a wealth of knowledge and experience that he uses to help his clients today.
Patrick has training and experience in using CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, Solutions-focused Therapy, Couples/Relationship Counseling, Career Counseling, Exposure Therapy, Mindfulness, Group Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Culturally Sensitive Therapy, Narcissist Survivors, PTSD, Trauma, and Strength-based modalities.
Patrick often uses CBT, DBT, PET, and Gottman Relationship Therapy or a combination tailored to your needs. If you're a narcissist survivor I can help you set boundaries and take your power back. If you're having relationship issues I can help you get back on the same team. I'll help you learn how to reframe negative thoughts, regulate your emotions, and focus on living in the here and now.
Patrick had extensive training as a CBHC Clinician with specialized trauma treatment in CBT, DBT, and Exposure Therapy. Gottman Method Couples Therapy level 1 & 2. Relationship issues, recovery from divorce/custody battles. Special Narcissist Survivors and Recovery Training for adult children and partners.
Patrick works with clients who may be struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, and relationship issues. During our initial sessions, we will delve deeply into the issues at hand, and collaborate to create a plan for addressing them in a way that helps you get your life back. Most of my clients see a gradual lifting of symptoms and sustained improvement personally and in their relationships."
Patrick strongly believes in seeing people as individuals, not as diagnoses, and uses a therapeutic approach that is client-centered, client-directed, and strengths-based. His style is eclectic, drawing on various modalities and interventions, he understands the foundational role of trust in the therapeutic relationship. I'm ready to listen, are you ready?
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Discovering Inner Peace with Between Us Counseling
Silvia Travis
Silvia is a graduate from Cambridge College with a Master's in Mental Health Counseling. Silvia has worked in Brazil in Mental Health Counseling after completing her Masters at Maua University in Art Therapy in Brazil before coming to the United States in 2007. Silvia has worked with Children in Somerville for the Somerville Public Schools, she worked at the Greater Malden Behavioral Health Inc doing in-home therapy with children and their families, and at Healthy Families as a Family Support Advocate who is responsible for providing support, education, advocacy, service planning, referrals, and case management for pregnant and parenting teen families in the Healthy Families program. Silvia also volunteered for CHA in HIV/AIDS counseling & Testing program that was partnered with Massachusetts Department of Public Health in 2008 working with the Somerville and surrounding Communities.
Silvia has worked at Cambridge Health Alliance as part of an integrated behavioral health team as a mental health care partner where she provided both short and long-term therapy. Her expertise spans various therapeutic modalities, including cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma-informed care, trauma processing, behavioral activation, solution-focused, and motivational interviewing. She adopts a holistic approach to therapy, incorporating mind/body awareness techniques, self-compassion practices, and methods to enhance one's sense of self. A significant portion of Silvia's career has been dedicated to supporting and serving multiculteral populations as she is bi-cultural and trilingual as she is from Brazil and is also fluent in Spanish. Silvia has demonstrated a deep commitment to her clients and the community.
Silvia started her career in mental health as a facilitator in writing guidelines to help the "children of the Streets" with a non-profit who's goal was to educate the parents of the children of the streets in 1999. Silvia became a teacher of the Arts in 2003 and used Art to reach out to all children and their cultures. Art is a human creation with aesthetic values (beauty, balance, harmony, anger) that synthesize their emotions, their history, their feelings and their culture. It is a set of procedures used to carry out works, in which we apply our knowledge to help the children reach their potential. This lead Silvia to receive her Masters in Art Therapy starting in 2006 and work Integrated Art Therapy in the fields of human development, visual art (drawing, painting, sculpture, and other art forms), and proceed with models of counseling and psychotherapy. Art therapy was used with children, adolescents, adults, older adults, groups, and families to assess and treat the following; anxiety, depression, and other mental and emotional problems and disorders; substance abuse and other addictions: family and relationship issues; abuse and domestic violence; social and emotional difficulties related to disability and illness; trauma and loss; physical, cognitive, and neurological problems; and psychosocial difficulties related to medical illness.
Proud Member Massachusetts Mental health Counselors Association
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