Psychotherapist in Massachusetts

Meet Lauren Cohen

Training and credentials

I hold a Master of Social Work from Boston University and am licensed in Massachusetts as well as California. My training includes Level 1 IFS certification (2023) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (2022). Every new client starts with a free 15-minute consultation, and the practice keeps a clear 48 hour cancellation policy. I am an out-of-network provider and offer superbills so PPO clients can seek reimbursement directly from their insurance.

Areas served

Cities and regions I work with across Massachusetts

Sessions are held by video, so I can see anyone physically located in Massachusetts. These are the areas clients most often write from.

Why a psychotherapist

Why work with a psychotherapist?

Psychotherapy helps because it is ongoing. I am not here to hand you a coping technique and send you off. We meet weekly or every other week, and over that time I get to know the patterns you cannot see clearly from the inside. That takes more than one conversation.

• Anxiety and high-functioning stress, familiar to a lot of people in academic and hospital settings here.
• Depression or emotional flatness that has settled in quietly, especially through the darker months.
• A life transition: graduate school, a first job, a move, a relationship ending or beginning.
• Relationship and attachment patterns, alone or together with your partner.
• Trauma held for a long time, including complex trauma that began early.
• Access. Winter, commuting, and rural distance stop deciding whether you get to therapy.

I work using Internal Family Systems, trained at Level 1 in 2023. Rather than treating anxiety as a fault to correct, IFS treats it as a part of you doing a job it learned a long time ago. Understanding that part usually changes more than fighting it does.