Addiction Therapy in Massachusetts: Support for Individuals, Partners, and Families Navigating Recovery

Addiction rarely stays contained to the person struggling with it.

It moves through relationships — reshaping how families communicate, how partners trust, how parents set limits, and how everyone in the system tries to hold things together when something keeps pulling them apart.

For families across Massachusetts navigating this, the challenge is often not a lack of care. It's a lack of clarity — about what helps, what makes things worse, and how to stay stable when the situation keeps shifting.

That's what this kind of therapy is for.

Who I Work With

I provide telehealth therapy for adults across Massachusetts who are navigating addiction, recovery, and the relational complexity that comes with them. That includes:

• Individuals in recovery who want structured support maintaining stability, understanding relapse patterns, and building a life that doesn't depend on substances to function

• Partners of people with addiction who are trying to figure out the difference between support and enabling, and who are exhausted from carrying more than their share

• Parents of adult children with addiction who feel caught between wanting to help and recognizing that their help may be keeping things stuck

• Families where addiction has disrupted communication, trust, and stability — including families in early recovery who expected things to improve quickly and found that the patterns didn't immediately change

What Makes This Work Different

I'm a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in both Vermont and Massachusetts, and I serve as Clinical Director of a residential substance use treatment program. The work I do in that setting — with people in acute stages of addiction and recovery, and with their families — directly informs how I approach private practice.

That means I'm not working from a textbook. I'm working from daily, close-up experience with what addiction actually does to people and relationships, and what tends to move things forward versus what keeps them stuck.

The approach is relational and attachment-based. Addiction doesn't happen in isolation — it develops within a context, and recovery happens within one too. Understanding the patterns that formed around the addiction, and how those patterns persist even when substance use stops, is usually where the most important work takes place.

The Gap Most Massachusetts Families Face

Massachusetts has strong addiction treatment infrastructure — particularly in the Boston area and along the Route 128 corridor. But private, individualized therapy for the family members of people with addiction is much harder to find.

Most addiction services focus on the person using substances. The partners, parents, and family members trying to navigate the situation alongside them are often left without their own support — or offered group resources that don't fit their specific situation.

This is exactly the gap I work in.

Therapy for partners and families isn't a secondary service. It's often where the most impactful work happens. When the people closest to someone in addiction develop greater clarity, stability, and healthier relational patterns, it creates the conditions in which recovery becomes more possible — even when the person struggling isn't yet in treatment.

How Telehealth Works for This Kind of Therapy

All of my sessions are conducted via telehealth, which means I can work with clients anywhere in Massachusetts — from Boston and the surrounding metro to Springfield, Worcester, the Berkshires, Cape Cod, and everywhere in between.

For people managing demanding work schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or simply the practical difficulty of finding time for in-person appointments, telehealth removes a significant barrier. The work itself is the same — structured, relational, and focused on creating real change, not just insight.

What to Expect

I keep a small caseload intentionally. That's not a limitation — it's how I'm able to do the kind of focused, consistent work that this kind of therapy requires.

Sessions are 50 minutes, private pay at $150. I offer a free 15-minute consultation beforehand, which is a useful way to get a sense of whether this is the right fit before committing to anything.

The work is steady, structured, and without shortcuts. The goal is not to feel temporarily better after each session — it's to understand the patterns well enough that they actually begin to change.