Sherry Kravitsky
My name is Sherry Kravitsky. I’ve been in private practice since 2012. I am a licensed mental health counselor. Life can be hard and challenging. There is no reason you should have to face it alone. I would like to help you find new tools and skills to help you achieve your goals and have the happiest life. I will help you problem solve, give you feedback, and tools to empower you to make the changes that are important to you. I am action oriented, but down to earth. I think every once in a while, it’s important to bring some humor into a session. I have a very eclectic approach and know many modalities. We will find the one that’s best for you and work together. I look forward to the opportunity to meeting with you for a consultation for 15 minutes to see if we’re a good fit because you are in the driver seat..
First session
During our first session, we go over policies and confidentiality, which is very important. We also take time to answer any questions that you may have or any concerns. I will give you an opportunity to share with me whatever you feel comfortable about what brought you to therapy. We will also start setting some goals, if you are ready.
Strengths
I bring a very diverse approach. I have worked with many individuals and couples from all walks of life and backgrounds.. I hope to bring a unique perspective and provide the necessary tools and resources you need to be successful. We will work as a team. I want you to feel like I have your back and that I want you to succeed! “I believe when you climb a mountain your legs get stronger!”. Let’s face these mountains together.
Ideal clients
I have also worked in higher education for 32 years counseling, college student students and nontraditional age students and conducting career counseling. I am very familiar with school and job transitions and job loss and retirement. I’ve also been a life coach and ADD coach. Am I private practice and I have worked with many couples and I am trained in the Gottman Method. I use a lot of CBT in my practice as well. I have a strong background and infertility, medical issues, body image, binge eating disorder and weight concerns, women’s issues, gender, identity, relationships, dating, divorce, and retirement. I have helped many individuals that faced depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Even if you’re unsure what you are issue is, I’m here to help guide you to discover what’s most important to you and worked towards your goals. Sometimes we need therapy for support and we’re not exactly sure what’s wrong and that’s OK too.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
The CBT Process in Practice * 1. Establish Rapport & Formulate Goals: Build a collaborative relationship and identify specific, measurable issues the client wants to address. * 2. Psychoeducation: Teach the client the CBT Model—how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors mutually influence each other. * 3. Identify Cognitive Distortions: Help the client track automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) and recognize unhelpful thinking patterns (e.g., all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing). * 4. Cognitive Restructuring: Challenge and reframe those distorted thoughts by examining evidence, testing beliefs, and replacing them with more realistic, balanced perspectives. * 5. Behavioral Interventions: Use techniques like behavioral activation (scheduling positive/meaningful activities) or exposure therapy (gradually confronting feared situations) to break unhelpful behavioral cycles. * 6. Homework & Skill Practice: Assign between-session practice (e.g., thought logs, behavioral experiments) to build autonomy and reinforce new skills. * 7. Relapse Prevention: Review progress, summarize newly mastered coping strategies, and prepare the client to act as their own therapist moving forward.
Strength-Based
The Strengths-Based Process in Practice * 1. Shift the Lens (De-emphasize Deficits): Acknowledge the client's pain or diagnosis without making it the core focus; instead, pivot quickly toward their resilience, resourcefulness, and survival skills. * 2. Collaborative Discovery: Treat the client as the ultimate expert on their own life. Partner with them to uncover personal talents, character traits (e.g., empathy, determination, humor), and core values. * 3. Strengths Mapping & Assessment: Inventory what the client does well, examining past successes, previous challenges they’ve overcome, and existing internal or external resources (e.g., supportive relationships, hobbies). * 4. Reframing the Narrative: Help the client rewrite their story from one of victimhood or failure to one of endurance and capability (e.g., reframing intense anxiety as deep caring or hyper-vigilance as past survival). * 5. Goal Setting via Agency: Co-create future-oriented, actionable goals that rely directly on the client's unique strengths rather than trying to "fix" a perceived weakness. * 6. Action and Mastery: Design small, manageable steps or behavioral experiments where the client can actively apply their strengths, building self-efficacy and confidence through immediate "wins". * 7. Reinforce Hope: Actively validate progress and celebrate competence to foster lasting self-reliance and an optimistic outlook.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
The Culturally Sensitive Therapy Process in Practice * 1. Cultural Self-Awareness & Humility: The clinician continuously examines their own cultural background, biases, and privileges, approaching the client as the expert on their own lived experience. * 2. Cultural Assessment & Contextualization: Integrate questions about the client's cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, gender, and socioeconomic background into early sessions to understand how these factors shape their worldview, distress, and strengths. * 3. Validate Sociocultural Realities: Acknowledge and normalize the impact of systemic issues—such as discrimination, microaggressions, marginalization, and historical trauma—distinguishing external stressors from individual pathology. * 4. Tailor Interventions & Language: Adapt traditional therapeutic frameworks to align with the client’s values, communication styles, community structures, and definitions of healing (e.g., involving extended family or spiritual practices). * 5. Bridge Cultural Gaps: Remain open to client feedback regarding cultural mismatches, actively clarifying misunderstandings and bridging any therapeutic or cultural divide without defensiveness. * 6. Empowerment & Advocacy: Support the client in building agency, navigating systemic barriers, and connecting with culturally affirming community resources and support systems.
Interpersonal
The Interpersonal Therapy Process in Practice 1. Link Mood to Relational Context: Focus primarily on the client's current interpersonal relationships and social functioning, connecting their emotional symptoms (like depression or anxiety) directly to ongoing relational dynamics. 2. Identify the Problem Area: Assess and categorize the client's primary relational struggle into one of four key areas: Grief: Unresolved mourning following the loss of a loved one. Role Disputes: Conflicts or misaligned expectations with a partner, family member, or coworker. Role Transitions: Major life changes (e.g., divorce, retirement, moving) requiring a new social identity. Interpersonal Deficits: Chronic difficulties in initiating or sustaining satisfying relationships. 3. Formulate the Treatment Focus: Collaboratively choose one or two of these problem areas to target during a short-term, time-limited course of therapy (typically 12 to 16 weeks). 4. Explore Options and Communication Patterns: Examine how the client communicates, expresses emotions, and handles conflict in key relationships, identifying maladaptive patterns or unspoken expectations. 5. Build Interpersonal Skills: Practice new communication strategies—such as assertiveness training, active listening, and directly expressing needs—through role-play and guided feedback within sessions. 6. Generalize and Terminate: Empower the client to apply these relational skills outside the session, resolving current distress and building a stronger social support network for long-term emotional resilience.
Eclectic
The Eclectic Approach Process in Practice * 1. Client-Centric Customization: Tailor the therapeutic framework, techniques, and pacing specifically to the unique needs, personality, and goals of the individual client rather than forcing them into a single theoretical mold ("what works best for this specific person"). * 2. Flexible Integration: Draw tools and strategies from multiple established modalities (such as CBT for thought patterns, Psychodynamic therapy for past roots, or Somatic work for physical tension) seamlessly within the treatment plan. * 3. Ongoing Assessment and Adaptation: Continuously monitor what is working and what is falling flat, shifting techniques dynamically as the client progresses through different phases of healing. * 4. Maintaining a Cohesive Rationale: Ensure that while various methods are used, the overall treatment remains structured and understandable to the client, grounding the diverse tools in a clear, shared conceptual understanding. * 5. Utilizing Common Factors: Prioritize universal, highly effective elements of therapy—such as a strong therapeutic alliance, empathy, and collaboration—as the backbone while integrating specific techniques.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- MassachusettsLicense LMHC7836